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A Life of Service
University of Texas Press
January 2010
On Sale: January 15, 2010
328 pages
ISBN: 0292719906
EAN: 9780292719903
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
An associate justice on the renowned Warren Court whose
landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education overturned
racial segregation in schools and other public facilities,
Tom C. Clark was a crusader for justice throughout his long
legal career. Among many tributes Clark received, Supreme
Court Chief Justice Warren Burger opined that "no man in the
past thirty years has contributed more to the improvement of
justice than Tom Clark." Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark is the first biography of
this important American jurist. Written by his daughter,
Mimi Clark Gronlund, and based on interviews with many of
Clark's judicial associates, friends, and family, as well as
archival research, it offers a well-rounded portrait of a
lawyer and judge who dealt with issues that remain in
contention today--civil rights, the rights of the accused,
school prayer, and censorship/pornography, among them.
Gronlund explores the factors in her father's upbringing and
education that helped form his judicial philosophy, then
describes how that philosophy shaped his decisions on key
issues and cases, including the internment of Japanese
Americans during World War II, the investigation of war
fraud, the Truman administration's loyalty program (an
anti-communist effort), the Brown decision, Mapp v. Ohio
(protections against unreasonable search and seizure), and
Abington v. Schempp (which overturned a state law that
required reading from the Bible each day in public schools).
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