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Title: Unfortunately, a dull read
Review: After the riveting "All the President's Men," one would expect that when Bob Woodward sharpened his journalistic pencil to take after the Supreme Court that more fun would follow. Alas, it is not to be. "The Brethren" is a fairly conventional by-the-numbers account of the Nixon-Ford era Supreme Court that tries to drum up tension from such incidents as the movement to impeach the aged Justice William O. Douglas, but ultimately fails. The secretive world of the court would be difficult for any journalist to penetrate, and here Woodward and his cohort Armstrong prove themselves not to be up to the task.A word about this book's availability. I frequent a lot of used book stores and I've come across it on a regular basis.
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