![]() ![]() He has been nominated for the Audie Award eight times and won it twice. Robert Fass does an excellent job narrating the book. The book is nine hours thirty-one minutes. I read this as an audiobook downloaded from Audible. I have read his biographies of Alexander Hamilton and George Washington. Richard Brookhiser is a journalist and biographer. I think that Brookhiser’s biography is ideal for the lay reader. Brookhiser’s book was a bit more entertaining. Brookhiser is more concise and covered primarily his working life and relationship with George Washington. John Richard Paul’s book “Without Precedent” was longer and provided more information about Marshall’s personal life as well as more in-depth analysis of his various rulings. According to Brookhiser it was Marshall that brought dignity to the Court. Marshall laid down the principles of the law and policies of the Court. Marshall was sworn in as Chief Justice in 1801 and died in 1835 in a stagecoach accident when travelling for the Court. None of these men served in the position long. The first was John Jay, then John Rutledge and then Oliver Ellsworth. John Marshall (1755-1835) was the fourth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. ![]() When I saw this newly released biography of Marshall by Richard Brookhiser, I had to buy it. The book wet my appetite to learn more about John Marshall. In March 2018 I read Joel Richard Paul’s “Without Precedent Chief Justice John Marshall and His Time”. ![]()
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