“Ten Americans: After Paul Klee” at the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. Kenneth Noland, In the Garden, 1952, Oil on canvas, The Phillips Collection. In his new biography, Joel Richard Paul, a professor of constitutional law at the University of California Hastings Law School in San Francisco, has chosen to focus on Marshall’s life as a politician, soldier, statesmen, and jurist-a departure from the many existing biographies that focus almost exclusively on his Supreme Court opinions. Born in a log cabin in rural Virginia and raised as a rugged frontiersman with little formal education, Marshall nevertheless led an impressive life that put him at the center of the Revolutionary movement and into contact with some of the most important Founding Fathers. Less is widely known, however, about the man himself. Students of American history and law alike still read Marshall’s precedent-setting rulings, among them Marbury v. Marshall’s indelible legacy, which shaped the direction of our fledgling nation and which is still felt in its government today, undoubtedly rests on the numerous landmark decisions he handed down as the highest-ranking judicial officer of the land.
Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times, by Joel Richard Paul (Riverhead Books): John Marshall’s death at the age of seventy-nine on Jmarked the end of a thirty-four-year tenure as Chief Justice of the United States, which remains the longest such tenure in U.S. Paul Klee, Young Moe, 1938, Oil on canvas, The Phillips Collection.
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