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Illinois Justice: The Scandal of 1969 and the Rise of John Paul Stevens

By Kenneth A. Manaster, John Paul Stevens (Foreword by)
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By Kenneth A. Manaster, John Paul Stevens (Foreword by)
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Illinois political scandals reached new depths in the 1960s and ’70s. In Illinois Justice, Kenneth Manaster takes us behind the scenes of one of the most spectacular. The so-called Scandal of 1969 not only ended an Illinois Supreme Court justice’s aspirations to the US Supreme Court, but also marked the beginning of little-known lawyer John Paul Stevens’s rise to the high court. In 1969, citizen gadfly Sherman Skolnick accused two Illinois Supreme Court justices of accepting valuable bank s...

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