Jacqueline R. Braitman, formerly with the department of history and The Center for the Study of Woman at the University of California, Los Angeles, has published widely on partisan women and has served as the assistant executive director of the California Supreme Court Historical Society. Gerald F. Uelmen is a professor of law (and former law school dean) at Santa Clara University. Past president of the California Academy of Appellate Lawyers, California Attorneys for Criminal Justice and California Catholic Lawyers Against the Death Penalty, he chairs the editorial advisory committee for California Lawyer.

“scholarly and spirited”—Jewish Journal; “a well-researched and engrossing narrative...engaging account...a well written biography that will grab your attention and hold it captive”—L.A. Daily Journal; “Stanley Mosk’s lengthy career in public service as a courageous trial judge, masterful politician, forceful attorney general, and brilliant jurist on California’s high court will long be remembered. I look forward to reading Braitman and Uelmen’s invaluable account of the life of this remarkable man.”—Ronald M. George, 27th Chief Justice of California (retired); “With the publication of this biography, the transformative career and fundamental likeability of Justice Mosk now fully becomes part of the permanent record.”—Kevin Starr, Professor of History, U.S.C.; Author of Americans and the California Dream.

• Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments      Introduction      1. “Walk Upstairs and Save”      2. “What This Fraternity Needs Is More Moreys!”      3. Lawyers “Who Should Be Thrown Out of Ten Story Windows”      4. “When the Plums Are Passed Out ... You Will Be Left Behind Again”      5. “I Crowded the War Off Page One”      6. “The Jewish Community Found a Leader”      7. “Use Their Heads Instead of Their Hob-Nailed Boots”      8. “Little Old Ladies in Tennis Shoes”      9. “A Great Democratic Rain”      10. “To Embarrass Them or Pressure Them Sometime in the Future”      11. “He Never Forgot What His Positions Were”      12. “The Mosk Doctrine”      13. “The Melancholy Truth”      14. “You Don’t Have to Remove Your Shoes Before Stepping All Over Stanley Mosk”      15. “But I Blame Jerry Brown for Putting You Here”      16. “You Have Remarkable Sources!”      17. “I Am Now an Orphan”      18. “I Have Never Known Defeat at the Polls”      19. “They Have Exalted Principal Over Principle”      20. “Where Has All the Grandeur Gone?”      Epilogue      Chapter Notes      Bibliography      Index of Cases      General Index