The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox: A Year in the Life of a Supreme Court Clerk in FDR's Washington
- ISBN-10
- 0226448622
- ISBN-13
- 9780226448626
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002-06
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Author
- John Knox
Description
Recapturing life in Washington, D.C., when it was still a genteel Southern town, this personal memoir was written by law clerk John Knox (1907-1997), private secretary to U.S. Supreme Court Justice James C. McReynolds. 16 halftones.
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- 2004-09
- 336 pages
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- University of Chicago Press
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