The Judge: The Life and Opinions of Alabama's Frank M. Johnson, Jr. - Hardcover

Sikora, Frank

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 096228159X ISBN 13: 9780962281594

Publisher: River City Pub, 1992

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From Publishers Weekly:

While more limited as a character study and legal/historical analysis than Jack Bass's Taming the Storm (reviewed above), this book is a useful complement. Using long stretches of court transcripts and equally long quotes from Johnson, Sikora, a staffer on the Birmingham (Ala.) News, dramatically reconstructs several major cases handled by the Federal Judge, whom former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brennan considers ``a remarkable man and a remarkable judge.'' Sikora describes courtroom arguments regarding the Montgomery bus boycott, Freedom Riders in Montgomery and, notably, the march Martin Luther King Jr. led in Selma. Sikora presents Johnson as a serious man with a sense of humor and of spirituality, but should have further explored Johnson's distance from standard liberalism: Johnson maintains that Northern liberal whites in the Civil Rights Movement were ``sorely misguided,'' personally opposes interracial marriages and by 1984 believed that blacks should compete equally with whites in education. Photos not seen by PW.

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About this edition

• Publisher: River City Pub
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 096228159X
• ISBN 13: 9780962281594
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 340