Justice Lewis F. Powell:

John C. Jeffries, Jr., graduated summa cum laude from Yale University and first in his class from the University of Virginia School of Law.

"... one of the finest judicial biographies ever written." -The New York Times Book Review "More than a model biography; it is an absorbing work of legal history with the character of a man at its center... a model of incisive storytelling in a field that can be as dry as a bone... a splendid book indeed, as finely textured and balanced as its subject." -The Washington Post Book World