| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 106.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Tracy Campbell. Short of the Glory: The Fall and Redemption of Edward F. Prichard, Jr. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 1998. Pp. x, 334. $27.50.

From Jerold S. Auerbach to Peter H. Irons, scholars have explored the extraordinary influence of lawyers upon both the failures and successes of Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration. The New Deal was, in Auerbach's memorable phrase, "a lawyer's deal." These accounts, however, have often stressed the critical roles played by an older generation of attorneys, mostly middle-aged, who arrived in Washington to command the administration's legal legions: Felix Frankfurter, Jerome Frank, Robert H. Jackson, Benjamin V. Cohen, Thomas G. "Tommy the Cork" Corcoran, John Burns, Oscar Cox, Wayne Coy, and Charles "Whispering Charlie" Fahy. 1

Considerably less attention has been paid to a younger generation of attorneys who joined the New Deal around 1935 and who made their greatest contributions in the years leading up to Pearl Harbor. They were, however, an equally impressive cohort, including: Joe Rauh, the premier civil rights and civil liberties attorney; Philip Graham, later publisher of the Washington Post; Paul Freund, the distinguished law professor; Telford Taylor, chief prosecutor at Nuremberg; Abe Feller, future general counsel to the United Nations; and Adrian "Butch" Fisher, later dean of the Georgetown Law School. And even less has been written about the post-New Deal careers of this extraordinary group of young lawyers. . . .

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