Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices

Noah Feldman. Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices. New York: Twelve, 2010.

In this compelling biography, Harvard University law professor Noah Feldman tells the story of four larger-than-life Supreme Court justices and the role they had in the making of the modern Constitution.

It would be hard to envision four more dissimilar men. Felix Frankfurter was an ebullient, erudite, immigrant Jew who started as America's leading liberal and ended as its...