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• Winner of Langum Prize for Historical Literature (Legal History) 2004

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""Ferren's sensitive, meticulously researched biography of Wiley Rutledge brings an almost forgotten judicial hero to center stage against the backdrop of the New Deal, World War II, McCarthyism, the Cold War, and the seldom-examined politics of judicial nomination in the turbulent 1940s and '50s. Ferren's work is a long overdue testament to the rise of a man of unassuming modesty and consummate scholarship from small-town U.S.A. to the pinnacle of the American legal system."" - Patricia Wald, Former Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit""

"""Ferren's sensitive, meticulously researched biography of Wiley Rutledge brings an almost forgotten judicial hero to center stage against the backdrop of the New Deal, World War II, McCarthyism, the Cold War, and the seldom-examined politics of judicial nomination in the turbulent 1940s and '50s. Ferren's work is a long overdue testament to the rise of a man of unassuming modesty and consummate scholarship from small-town U.S.A. to the pinnacle of the American legal system."" - Patricia Wald, Former Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit"""

Ferren's sensitive, meticulously researched biography of Wiley Rutledge brings an almost forgotten judicial hero to center stage against the backdrop of the New Deal, World War II, McCarthyism, the Cold War, and the seldom-examined politics of judicial nomination in the turbulent 1940s and '50s. Ferren's work is a long overdue testament to the rise of a man of unassuming modesty and consummate scholarship from small-town U.S.A. to the pinnacle of the American legal system. - Patricia Wald, Former Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit

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John M. Ferren is a senior judge on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. He lives with his wife, Linda, in Washington, D.C., and South Bethany, Delaware.

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