Volume 18, Number 12 · June 29, 1972
Fiddler in the Doghouse
By Nicholas von Hoffman
A Question of Judgment: The Fortas Case and the Struggle for the Supreme Court
by Robert Shogan
Bobbs-Merrill, 314 pp., $10.00
Long before his fall, when it seemed as if he and LBJ might roll on forever, Abe Fortas wasn't your ordinary Supreme Court justice—not when he was gliding around Washington in his chauffeured Rolls-Royce. During the late 1960s justices of the Supreme Court were, as a rule, unseen and pedestrian—that is, they walked—but Fortas had that Georgetown house with the swimming pool. I saw it from the inside once and it was all it was said to be, with the 'good' antique furniture and the valuable string instruments including a Guidantus and a 1740 dancing master's fiddle given to Fortas by Mrs. Wurlitzer and performed on by Isaac Stern.
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