| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.2

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Salt of the Earth, Conscience of the Court: The Story of Justice Wiley Rutledge. By John M. Ferren. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xiv, 577 pp. $39.95, ISBN 08078-2866-1.)

In 1943 Wiley Blount Rutledge became the last of Franklin D. Roosevelt's nine appointments to the Supreme Court of the United States. He died six years later, barely two months after the passing of his judicial ally and friend, Justice Frank Murphy. Had it not been for his passionate dissent in the infamous war crimes case of Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita, the so-called Tiger of Malaya, his vigorous defense of the First Amendment, his innovative approach to the Fourteenth Amendment incorporation debate, and the fate of the Court after his death, Justice Rutledge would have remained in that special wing of the historical museum reserved for Supreme Court nonentities such as Robert Trimble, Philip Barbour, and Charlie Whittaker.

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