Details
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Title
Young Thurgood : The Making of a Supreme Court Justice
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Author
Gibson, Larry S
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Binding
Hardcover
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Edition
First Edition
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Condition
Used - Good
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Pages
413
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Volumes
1
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Language
ENG
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, Amherst, New York
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Date
2012-12-04
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Illustrated
Yes
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Features
Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
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Bookseller's Inventory #
3953043-6
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ISBN
9781616145712 / 1616145714
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Weight
1.53 lbs (0.69 kg)
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Dimensions
9.23 x 6.33 x 1.12 in (23.44 x 16.08 x 2.84 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
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Library of Congress subjects
United States - Officials and employees, United States - History
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Library of Congress Catalog Number
2012027517
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Dewey Decimal Code
B
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From the publisher
Like the movie Marshall, this book--theonly biography of Thurgood Marshall to be endorsed by Marshall's immediate family--focuses on his early civil rights struggles andsuccesses beforeBrown v. Board of Education.Thurgood Marshall was the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century. He transformed the nation's legal landscape by challenging the racial segregation that had relegated millions to second-class citizenship. He won twenty-nine of thirty-three cases before the United States Supreme Court, was a federal appeals court judge, served as the US solicitor general, and, for twenty-four years, sat on the Supreme Court. Marshall is best known for achievements after he relocated to New York in 1936 to work for the NAACP. But Marshall's personality, attitudes, priorities, and work habits had crystallized during earlier years in Maryland. This work is the first close examination of the formative period in Marshall's life. As the author shows, Thurgood Marshall was a fascinating man of contrasts. He fought for racial justice without becoming a racist. Simultaneously idealistic and pragmatic, Marshall was a passionate advocate, yet he maintained friendly relationships with his opponents. Young Thurgood reveals how Marshall's distinctive traits were molded by events, people, and circumstances early in his life. Professor Gibson presents fresh information about Marshall's family, youth, and education. He describes Marshall's key mentors, the special impact of his high school and college competitive debating, his struggles to establish a law practice during the Great Depression, and his first civil rights cases. The author sheds new light on the NAACP and its first lawsuits in the campaign that led to the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation decision. He also corrects some of the often-repeated stories about Marshall that are inaccurate.The only biography of Thurgood Marshall to be endorsed by Marshall's immediate family, Young Thurgood is an exhaustively researched and engagingly written work that everyone interested in law, civil rights, American history, and biography will want to read.
Media reviews
“A well-researched and engaging biography and a fine addition to Marshall scholarship.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Succeeds in making Marshall’s story immediate and vital.” —Publishers Weekly
"[A]n insightful portrait of a complex man." —Booklist
"The most accurate book ever published about my husband."
—Cecilia S. Marshall, Wife of Thurgood Marshall
"A page-turner. Its compelling story is a must-read for anyone who wishes to understand a great man and the history of the civil rights movement. I enthusiastically recommend this book."
—Charles J. Ogletree Jr., Professor of law, Harvard Law School, and author of The Presumption of Guilt
"Gibson vividly recounts the remarkable journey that shaped one of the most influential icons of the twentieth century."
—Marc H. Morial, President and chief executive officer of the National Urban League
"A triumph of discovery and restraint, Young Thurgood transports readers into a vivid, indomitable black culture that equipped this legal giant to remake our world."
—Taylor Branch, Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Cartel
"I commend [this book] to every American who wishes to better understand our nation's ongoing struggle for universal civil rights."
—Elijah E. Cummings, US Congressperson from Maryland
"A powerful account of Marshall's formative years and new insight into the early years of the NAACP."
—Benjamin Jealous, President of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Citations
- Booklist, 11/01/2012, Page 6
- Choice, 08/01/2013, Page 0
- Foreword, 12/03/2012, Page 0
- Kirkus Reviews, 10/01/2012, Page 0
- Library Journal, 12/01/2012, Page 96
- Publishers Weekly, 10/15/2012, Page 0
About the author
Larry S. Gibson (Baltimore, MD) is a professor of law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law in Baltimore, Maryland, where he has been on the faculty for thirty-seven years. He is also a practicing lawyer with the firm of Shapiro, Sher, Guinot, and Sandler. Among his many accomplishments was legislation that renamed Maryland's major airport, the Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.
