The Tenth Seat

Much has been said in political news lately about "packing" the U.S. Supreme Court with additional Justices besides the present nine. This is nothing new in the history of the Court. Congress has changed the number to as few as six and as many as ten. This novel is based on the life story of Stephen Johnson Field, the only tenth Justice to have ever served on the Supreme Court, who served from his 1863 appointment by President Abraham Lincoln until 1897.

Field is the second longest-serving J...