![]() ![]() Other Minnesotans were guarded in their support: Walter Mondale dismissed him as a conservative, and Hubert Humphrey was not enthusiastic. Along the way, she offers revealing notes on Warren Burger, whose own papers are sealed until 2026 Burger, Blackmun’s childhood friend and fellow Minnesotan, helped see Blackmun onto the bench. On his death in 1999, writes New York Times Supreme Court correspondent Greenhouse, Harry Blackmun gave the Library of Congress his papers, “contained in 1,585 boxes that take up more than six hundred feet.” Drawing on this wealth of primary information, Greenhouse turns in a nuanced study of Blackmun as legal thinker and judge. ![]() The life and times of a Supreme Court justice who resisted easy categorization, then and now. ![]()
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