Earl warren biography reviews

Earl Warren was the rare politician, and later jurist, who both practiced and preached that honesty and integrity are the most important parts of a person's character.

Ed Cray chronicles Warren's long and extraordinary career of a half-century in public service with objectivity and professionalism. Neither fawning nor overly critical, Cray is able to maintain a fairly personable stance on Warren, taking him to task when he felt that Warren's actions did not line up with his professed ideals.

The result is a book that, while not making for riveting reading, carefully examines just who Earl Warren was, what was important to him, how his thinking was molded while growing up in California, and how he managed a relatively seamless major career change: going from Governor of California to Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

The book is roughly divided in half, page-wise, between Warren's career as a politician an