At the end of Kennedy’s tenure as the most important swing justice in recent Supreme Court history, Helen Knowles provides an updated edition of her highly regarded book on Justice Kennedy and his constitutional vision.

A career biography of Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy.

The complete memoirs of one of America’s most influential judges from his idyllic youth in Sacramento to thirty years on the Supreme Court. Anthony Kennedy was one of the most consequential Supreme Court justices in history. Now, he offers an inside account of his meteoric rise to Federal bench at age thirty-eight and then long service on the Supreme Court following his nomination by President Reagan in 1987. The Kennedy Memoirs Boxed Set includes the following titles: -Kennedy Memoirs 1: Follow Anthony Kennedy’s journey from his youth in 1940s Sacramento to service on the highest courts in America. -Kennedy Memoirs 2: An inside account of Anthony Kennedy’s thirty years on the Supreme Court and major decisions on abortion, affirmative action, freedom of speech, gay marriage, separation of powers, and federalism. The Kennedy Memoirs Boxed Set is the must-read account from one of America’s most influential public servants, a judge whose constitutional vision defined the law of the land for decades.

Examines the judicial philosophy of Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, who has been the critical swing vote on the Court for the last 20 years.

#1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER New York Times finance editor David Enrich's explosive exposé of the most scandalous bank in the world, revealing its shadowy ties to Donald Trump, Putin's Russia, and Nazi Germany “A jaw-dropping financial thriller” —Philadelphia Inquirer On a rainy Sunday in 2014, a senior executive at Deutsche Bank was found hanging in his London apartment. Bill Broeksmit had helped build the 150-year-old financial institution into a global colossus, and his sudden death was a mystery, made more so by the bank’s efforts to deter investigation. Broeksmit, it turned out, was a man who knew too much. In Dark Towers, award-winning journalist David Enrich reveals the truth about Deutsche Bank and its epic path of devastation. Tracing the bank’s history back to its propping up of a default-prone American developer in the 1880s, helping the Nazis build Auschwitz, and wooing Eastern Bloc authoritarians, he shows how in the 1990s, via a succession of hard-charging executives, Deutsche made a fateful decision to pursue Wall Street riches, often at the expense of ethics and the law. Soon, the bank was manipulating markets, violating international sanctions to aid terrorist regimes, scamming investors, defrauding regulators, and laundering money for Russian oligarchs. Ever desperate for an American foothold, Deutsche also started doing business with a self-promoting real estate magnate nearly every other bank in the world deemed too dangerous to touch: Donald Trump. Over the next twenty years, Deutsche executives loaned billions to Trump, the Kushner family, and an array of scandal-tarred clients, including convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Dark Towers is the never-before-told saga of how Deutsche Bank became the global face of financial recklessness and criminality—the corporate equivalent of a weapon of mass destruction. It is also the story of a man who was consumed by fear of what he’d seen at the bank—and his son’s obsessive search for the secrets he kept.

The Washington Post journalist and legal expert Ruth Marcus goes behind the scenes to document the inside story of the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation battle and the Republican plot to take over the Supreme Court—thirty years in the making—in this “impressively reported, highly insightful, and rollicking good read” (The New York Times Book Review). In the summer of 2018 the Kavanaugh drama unfolded so fast it seemed to come out of nowhere. With the power of the #MeToo movement behind her, a terrified but composed Christine Blasey Ford walked into a Senate hearing room to accuse Kavanaugh of sexual assault. This unleashed unprecedented fury from a Supreme Court nominee who accused Democrats of a “calculated and orchestrated political hit.” But behind this showdown was a much bigger one. The Washington Post journalist and legal expert Ruth Marcus documents the thirty-year mission by conservatives to win a majority on the Supreme Court and the lifelong ambition of Brett Kavanaugh to secure his place in that victory. The reporting in Supreme Ambition is full of revealing and weighty headlines, as Marcus answers the most pressing questions surrounding this historical moment: How did Kavanaugh get the nomination? Was Blasey Ford’s testimony credible? What does his confirmation mean for the future of the court? Were the Democrats outgunned from the start? On the way, she uncovers secret White House meetings, intense lobbying efforts, private confrontations on Capitol Hill, and lives forever upended on both coasts. This “extraordinarily detailed” (The Washington Post) page-turner traces how Brett Kavanaugh deftly maneuvered to become the nominee and how he quashed resistance from Republicans and from a president reluctant to reward a George W. Bush loyalist. It shows a Republican party that had concluded Kavanaugh was too big to fail, with senators and the FBI ignoring potentially devastating evidence against him. And it paints a picture of Democratic leaders unwilling to engage in the no-holds-barred partisan warfare that might have defeated the nominee. In the tradition of The Brethren and The Power Broker, Supreme Ambition is the definitive account of a pivotal moment in modern history, one that will shape the judicial system of America for generations to come.

From one of America’s most influential judges comes an inside account of thirty years on the Supreme Court and major cases on abortion, affirmative action, freedom of speech, gay marriage, separation of powers, and federalism. The most consequential Supreme Court justice of the 21st century has been Anthony M. Kennedy. Unlike his historical peers from Marshall to Warren, his mark was made not by articulating a singular vision of the Constitution, but from the fact that he stood at the ideological center of a deeply divided Court. In a string of landmark rulings, it was Kennedy’s distinctive constitutional vision that proved decisive: on abortion (Gonzales and Casey), on gay rights (Obergefell), on freedom of speech (Citizens United), on freedom of religion (Masterpiece Cakeshop), on separation of powers (Zivotofsky II and Boumediene), on affirmative action (Fisher v. University of Texas), on the death penalty (Roper), and more. In these cases, it was Kennedy’s written opinion that defined the law of the land. Sometimes, he was writing on behalf of the Court’s liberals, other times on behalf of its conservatives. In Life and Law: The Court Years, he explains his decisions and how he came to them, wrestling with the contrast between his beliefs and what he thought the Constitution actually means. The book is a deep examination of how a judge decides a case and grows intellectually as each new one builds upon the last. It is also the story of how the Supreme Court functions, with vivid portraits of Kennedy’s colleagues over the years. Here is the two-man “civility committee” run by Kennedy and John Paul Stevens to make sure Brennan and Scalia made up after arguments, William Rehnquist nursing his sick wife, Byron White and Clarence Thomas’s rivalry on the basketball court, and a personal testament to the strength of Sandra Day O’Connor.