No Person Above the Law: A Novel Based on the Life of Judge John J. Sirica

The country faced a Constitutional crisis during the Watergate conspiracy. He stood firm to set the record straight.

As the chief judge of the federal court in Washington D.C. in 1972, John J. Sirica took on the trial of burglars arrested while planting electronic bugs in the Democratic headquarters in the Watergate complex. Who had sent them? The defendants weren't saying and President Nixon disavowed any knowledge of the conspirators.

Sirica came to the law as the son of an Italian immigra...