Howard Ball is Professor of Political Science at the University of Vermont. A distinguished writer of judicial biographies and histories of the federal courts, he has written many books, including The U.S. Supreme Court: From the Inside Out and Of Power and Right: Justices Black and Douglas and America's Constitutional Revolution.

"Adds a great deal to what every educated reader should know of Black and his place in U.S. legal history."--Library Journal"Anyone interested in the persona and work of the late great Associate Justice, will glean appealing and interpretative data from Professor Ball's objective account."--Henry J. Abraham, University of Virginia