Brothers Judd Top 100 of the 20th Century: Non-Fiction
It's Two! Two! Two books in one!
The primary function of this book is as a brilliant defense of Judge
Bork's philosophy of original understanding and an excoriating polemic
against judicial intervention. Surveying the entire history of American
jurisprudence, Bork takes on interventionists of the Left and of the Right
and makes an irrefutable case for the proposition that judicial intervention
is a threat to the very functioning of the Republic. As you read
his arguments and watch him marshal the facts, it's easy to understand
why his nomination to the Supreme Court became such a political crucible.
We lost the opportunity to have a really first class mind shape the Court
for a generation when he was defeated.
That entire ugly confirmation fight makes up a kind of book within the
book. It is excruciatingly painful to read this section, as genuine
criminals, murderers and scum like Ted Kennedy and Howard Metzenbaum and
Joe Biden sit in judgment on Bork in the Judiciary Committee hearings.
I can understand why the Left thought it was so important to keep him off
of the bench, but the lengths they went to, including lies, character assassination
and invasion of privacy, are really sickening and continue to reverberate
through our politics today, to noone's benefit.
This is an important book by a decent man who was done wrong.
(Reviewed:06-Dec-99)
Grade: (A+)
Websites:
Robert Bork Links:
Judicial Imperialism: There's one way in which America is as bad as Belgium (ROBERT H. BORK, June 22, 2003, Wall Street Journal)
Book-related and General Links:
-UNOFFICIAL
ROBERT H. BORK HOME PAGE
-Right
or Wrong? Read what Judge Bork wrote in 1963, and
ask yourself, "Was he right, or wrong?" Civil Rights - A Challenge by Robert
Bork
-ESSAY
: Having Their Day in (a Military) Court : How best to prosecute terrorists.
(Robert H. Bork, December 17, 2001, National Review)
-ESSAY
: Stop Courts From Imposing Gay Marriage : Why we need
a constitutional amendment. (Robert Bork, August 7, 2001, Wall
Street Journal)
-ESSAY
: Court Ruling Was No Victory For Microsoft King Pyrrhus,
meet Bill Gates. (ROBERT H. BORK AND KENNETH W. STARR, July 5,
2001, Wall Street Journal)
-ESSAY
: Ted Olson is Conservative--Get Over It (Robert Bork, Washington Post)
-ESSAY
: Blue-Slip Blackmail : Democrats declare war over the judiciary. Bush
must not surrender. (ROBERT H. BORK , May 10, 2001, Wall Street Journal)
-ESSAY
: Sanctimony serving politics: the Florida fiasco : Reflections on
the Supreme Court's internvention in the battle for Florida's electoral
votes (Robert H. Bork, New Criterion)
-ESSAY:
Our Judicial Oligarchy (Robert H. Bork, First Things)
-ARCHIVES
: Index of Articles from The American Enterprise Institute
-INTERVIEW:
(Ann
Online)
-Transcripts
"Affirmative Action and Reaction" (Think Tank)
-ESSAY
: Judge Dread : Even conservatives are shying away from Robert Bork's new
book (Walter Olson, Reason)
-ESSAY
: What Robert Bork Doesn't Know (Edward J. Erler, Salvatori Center
for the American Constitution)
-REVIEW
ESSAY: Lawrence Sager: Back to Bork
The Tempting
of America: The Political Seduction of the Law by Robert H. Bork
Battle
for Justice: How the Bork Nomination Shook America by Ethan Bronner
The People
Rising: The Campaign Against the Bork Nomination by Michael Pertschuk and
Wendy Schaetzel
-REVIEW:
of Battle for Justice How the Bork Nomination Shook America By Ethan
Bronner (CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT, NY Times)
-REVIEW:
of BATTLE FOR JUSTICE How the Bork Nomination Shook America. By Ethan
Bronner (Garry Wills, NY Times)
-REVIEW: of Slouching Toward Gomorrah: Judge Dread Robert
Bork's hyperbolic assault on contemporary culture is a best-seller. But
it has even his conservative allies backing away (Walter Olson, Reason)
-REVIEW:
Slouching Towards Gomorrah by Robert H. Bork (Joseph Adelson, Commentary)
-REVIEW:
Book Review: "Slouching Towards Gomorrah" (Jeffrey Shallit, Department
of Computer Science, University of Waterloo)
-REVIEW:
of SLOUCHING TOWARDS GOMORRAH Modern Liberalism and American Decline
(Richard A. Epstein, NY Times Book Review)
-REVIEW
: of SLOUCHING TOWARDS GOMORRAH: MODERN LIBERALISM AND AMERICAN DECLINE
by Robert H. Bork (Richard A. Glenn, Law and Politics Book Review)
-REVIEW
ESSAY: Joan Didion: Uncovered Washington
Uncovering
Clinton: A Reporter's Story by Michael Isikoff
Active
Faith: How ChristiansAre Changing the Soul of American Politics by Ralph
Reed
Slouching
Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline by Robert H. Bork
-BOOKNOTES:
Booknotes Transcript Author: Robert Bork Title: Slouching Towards Gomorrah:
Modern Liberalism and American Decline ©-SPAN)
-ESSAY:
The Battle of Bork (Brad Dicken, Intellectual Capital)
GENERAL:
-ESSAY:
Law Schools vs. Dissenting Views (Aimee Howd, Insight Magazine | June
15, 2000)
-REVIEW
: of Sovereign Virtue The Theory and Practice of Equality, by Ronald Dworkin
Impractical Equality (Richard A. Epstein, Reason)
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