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Book Reviewed by:This article relates to In The Shadow of The Law
This is
Kermit Roosevelt's first novel.
He is an assistant professor of
law at the
University of Pennsylvania Law
School and a former clerk to
a U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
He's also a descendent of
Theodore Roosevelt, but to his
credit, this is a fact that I
only gleaned when I asked his
publisher a direct question,
having noticed that he shared
the same name as one of
Roosevelt's sons.
Presumably this also makes him a
relative of Kermit Roosevelt,
the CIA agent who is believed to
have masterminded the coup that
put the Shah of Iran back on his
Throne in 1953.
His latest projects appear to be a
work about legal
scholar Walter Wheeler Cook (died 1943) and
a book to be published by Yale University
Press later this year titled The Myth of Judicial
Activism : Making Sense of Supreme Court
Decisions - neither of which are likely
to be of high interest to you.
However, I have little doubt that he'll be
trying his hand at another legal thriller
before long.
This "beyond the book article" relates to In The Shadow of The Law. It originally ran in July 2005 and has been updated for the
June 2006 paperback edition.
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