A Supreme Difference

Anthony Lewis

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American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
by Joan Biskupic
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 434 pp., $28.00

John Paul Stevens: An Independent Life
by Bill Barnhart and Gene Schlickman
Northern Illinois University Press, 311 pp., $26.95

Antonin Scalia remains the most interesting of the Supreme Court’s conservatives, the most provocative. He does not hesitate to be sarcastic, even contemptuous, about his colleagues when he disagrees with them.

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