The Rehnquist Choice: The Untold Story of the Nixon Appointment that Red

The explosive story of how William Rehnquist became a Supreme Court Justice, told by the only person who could have revealed this information-John W. Dean.

In 1971, William Rehnquist seemed the perfect choice to fill a seat on the United States Supreme Court. He was a young, well-polished lawyer who shared many of President Richard Nixon's philosophies and faced no major objections from the Senate. But in truth, the nomination was anything but straightforward. Now, for the first time, former...