Earl Warren - White, G. Edward (John B. Minor Professor of Law and Cromwell Research Professor of History, John B. Minor Professor of Law and Cromwell Research Professor of History, University of Virginia)

How could the man who presided over so many controversial Supreme Court decisions and led such a notable political career seem to be, and be regarded as, a person of quite modest presence and abilities? White, a former law clerk to Warren, goes back to Warren's roots in Progressivism to demonstrate the underlying consistencies beneath the apparent paradoxes of the man's career.