Description: It was in tolling the death of Chief Justice John Marshall in 1835 that the Liberty Bell cracked, never to ring again. An apt symbol of the man who shaped both court and country, whose life "reads like an early history of the United States", as the "Wall Street Journal" noted, adding: Jean Edward Smith "does an excellent job of recounting the details of Marshall's life without missing the dramatic sweep of the history it encompassed". 32-page photo insert.
Brief description: Jean Edward Smith (1932-2019) was the John Marshall Professor of Political Science at Marshall University and the professor of political science at the University of Toronto. Among his books are Lucius D. Clay: An American Life, and George Bush's War. His biography of FDR was the winner of the Francis Parkman prize.
Review Quotes:
"A wholly satisfying modern biography that immediately establishes itself as the authoritative life."
--The New York Times Book Review
--The New Republic "Does an excellent job of recounting the details of Marshall's life without missing the dramatic sweep of the history it encompassed."
--The Wall Street Journal