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  • The Supreme Court

    The Supreme Court - Paperback

    The Supreme Court - Paperback

    By William H. Rehnquist
  • All the Laws but One: Civil Liberties in Wartime

    All the Laws but One: Civil Liberties in Wartime - Paperback

    All the Laws but One: Civil Liberties in Wartime - Paperback

    By William H. Rehnquist

About William H. Rehnquist Books

William H. Rehnquist was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. He earned his B.A. and M.A. in political science from Stanford University and a second M.A. from Harvard. He graduated first in his class at Stanford Law School in 1952. In 1969 Rehnquist became assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's Office of Legal Council. He was confirmed by the Senate as an associate justice of the Supreme Court in December 1971, and took his place on the bench in January 1972. He became the sixteenth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in 1986. Chief Justice Rehnquist died in 2005.