American Original: The Life And Constitution Of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

Justice Antonin Scalia is the most prominent and influential jurist in the country.  This fact is not difficult to explain: A brilliant man with extraordinary skill as a rhetorician, Scalia is also a very animated figure.  The Justice is, as Joan Biskupic writes in her new biography American Original, “a combination of Felix Frankfurter and Luciano Pavariotti.”  And despite the flat journalistic treatment of this book, Scalia, with his outsized personality and intellectual brio in defense of his constitutional philosophy, emerges as a kind of jurisprudential Samuel Johnson.