Reminiscences of Stanley Forman Reed, Harold Leventhal and John Sapienza : oral history, 1959.

Biographical Note

Supreme Court justice.

Scope and Contents

Boyhood in Kentucky; education in United States and abroad; Kentucky legislature; the farm problem in the Hoover administration; appointment as Solicitor General in the early New Deal; presenting cases before the Supreme Court; appointment to the Supreme Court; impressions of other members of the court and members of the bar; cases presented before the court; the role of the court in the New Deal; impressions of men and events of the Roosevelt administration. The memoir includes brief contributions by Harold Leventhal and John Sapienza.

Subjects

• Interviews.
• Judges--Interviews.
• Lawyers--Interviews.
• Leventhal, Harold, 1915-1979.
• Leventhal, Harold, 1915-1979.
• New Deal, 1933-1939.
• Oral histories.
• Reed, Stanley Forman, 1884-1980.
• Sapienza, John.
• Sapienza, John.
• Shaughnessy, Donald F., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
• United States. Supreme Court.

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