| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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Book Review

John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court. By R. Kent Newmyer. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. xx, 511 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8071-2701-9.)

Today, almost exactly two hundred years from his ascent to the chief justiceship, John Marshall's star, along with that of the president who appointed him to the Court, is clearly on the rise. Evidence abounds. R. Kent Newmyer's new biography joins such important recent works as Jean Edward Smith's biography (1996), Charels F. Hobson's and Herbert Alan Johnson's accounts of Marshall as chief justice (1996, 1997), and James F. Simon's new study of Marshall and Jefferson (2002). It is not just a matter of quantity either; there is a real air of appreciation of the man and his deeds in most of the new work and a great freedom from the deep ambivalence toward Marshall characteristic of the classic statements of earlier ages, such as those of Oliver Wendell Holmes and Felix Frankfurter. . . .

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