Volume 16, Number 8 · May 6, 1971
Below the Bench
By Murray Kempton
Decision
by Richard Harris
Dutton, 220 pp., $5.95
To the Victor: Political Patronage from the Clubhouse to the White House
by Martin Tolchin, by Susan Tolchin
Random House, 312 pp., $7.95
Richard Harris brings to this chronicle of the Senate's repulse of Judge G. Harrold Carswell at the gate of the Supreme Court the exhilarating spirit of those great Whig historians who preferred to write about a politician only at his moment of highest disinterest. Thanks to them we know everything except what we would rather not know about Fox falling upon George Germain or about Grafton delivering to James the Second the response of the Old Cause.
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