Earl Warren: Finding "The Notion of Equality"

President Dwight D. Eisenhower's recess appointment of Earl Warren to the chief justiceship of Supreme Court on September 30, 1953, constituted a watershed mark in the history of the court. His leadership of what was decidedly the Warren Court, generated more landmark opinions in American constitutional law than any chief since John Marshall.

Chief Justice Warren, it has been rightly said, did...