Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun’s Supreme Court Journey by Linda Greenhouse (Times Books, 258 pages, $25.00) The day that former president Lyndon Johnson died, January 22, 1973, Justice Harry Blackmun announced the Supreme Court’s 7-to-2 decision in Roe v. Wade, legalizing abortion throughout the nation. The media led with Johnson’s passing, while Blackmun, […]
Stanley Kutler
Stanley I. Kutler, professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin Law School is the author of The Wars of Watergate.

