![]() ![]() ![]() His award-winning Brandeis: A Free Man's Life (1946) and Harlan Fiske Stone: Pillar of the Law (1956) not only offered a myriad of detail about the early lives and developing ideas of those justices but explored the inner dynamics of the Court, revealing the extent to which it operated as a political institution. Indeed, in the 1960s Mason was often considered to be the preeminent judicial biographer in the country. ![]() He is best known, however, for his pioneering studies in judicial biography. ![]() He published twenty-two books in addition to a vast number of articles. American Constitutional Law (Mason and Beaney 1954) was the textbook in my first constitutional law course.1 Then, as a graduate student at the University of California, Santa Barbara a few years later, I read Free Government in the Making (1949) in Gordon Baker's course in American political thought.2 A number of years passed before I realized that those two books represented only a small portion of Mason's work. I first encountered Alpheus Thomas Mason's work when I was an undergraduate in the early 1970s. ![]()
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