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Saving Justice: Watergate, the Saturday Night Massacre, and Other Adventures of a Solicitor General Hardcover – March 12, 2013

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In June 1973, Judge Robert Bork was plucked from a quiet life of academia at Yale University and planted in the tumultuous soil of constitutional crisis by a Nixon administration barreling toward collapse. From the ousting of Vice President Spiro Agnew to the discharge of the Watergate special prosecutor, an event known as the Saturday Night Massacre, Saving Justice offers a firsthand, insider account of the whirlwind of events that engulfed the administration during the last half of 1973 and the first few months of 1974. This important volume provides a revelatory look into the inner workings of the Justice Department during some of the most consequential months of the Nixon administration.

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Bork deserves to be remembered by a grateful nation for the services he rendered in preventing disarray in the Justice Department at a moment of unprecedented assault on the rule of law, and for facilitating the removal of a president during Washington days that were darker than most people today can imagine. His book confirms the axiom that our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times.”

George Will

Robert Bork was a remarkable American patriot. Absolutely a fascinating book.”

Mark Levin

While certainly Judge Bork’s confirmation struggle was an important political inflection point, what he did for the life of the law in this country and in defense of the Constitution greatly overshadows that one moment.

Leonard A. Leo, Federalist Society

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Robert H. Bork, who died December 19, 2012, was the author of two New York Times best sellers, Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline and The Tempting of America: The Political Seduction of the Law, and several other books, including A Time to Speak, Coercing Virtue: The Worldwide Rule of Judges, and The Antitrust Paradox: A Policy at War with Itself. A Distinguished Fellow of Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., and formerly the Tad and Dianne Taube Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Bork served as the United States solicitor general from 1973 to 1977. Before becoming a partner in the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis, Bork served in the United States Marine Corps. He taught for nineteen years at Yale University Law School and was named to the Alexander M. Bickel Chair of Public Law in 1980. Bork was the circuit judge of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1982 to 1988, and a distinguished scholar at the American Enterprise Institute from 1988 to 2003. At the time of his death, he was a Senior Fellow at Hudson Institute.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Encounter Books (March 12, 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 200 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1594036810
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1594036811
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.5 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.3 x 0.8 x 9.1 inches

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Bork is brilliant, as usual!!

Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2013

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Excellent book, as per usual by Judge Bork. He handled the Watergate crisis with his usal high professionalism and ethics. Interesting insights into Nixon and Agnew also!! Bork kept the Watergate investigation going, and the Justice Dept intact, like Elliot Richardson asked him to, when the latter resigned. If we had judges that interpreted like Bork, we would still be able to recognize the constitution, which the liberals have so often trashed. Bork's philosophy of original understanding isn't right-wing, but the only NEUTRAL philosophy that exists. Of course judges should interpret in light of what the law-maker understood they were enacting, or they are not interpreting, but inventing new meaning to the law. This is the common-sense/everyday understanding of how law works. Just as we would expect that a judge interpret a will in light of what the testator wanted, so it is with the const. and statutes. Leftists want their tyrannical judges to create new policy in the const to overide what the people have enacted democratically, or by and through their elected reps. Contrary to the smears, Judge Bork ruled in favor of the minority or female claimant/plaintiff in almost every case when he was a judge, and advanced positions, while Solicitor general that was more favorable to female or minority claims than even the supreme court would accept. The ted kennedy lies are so ridiculous, that they are not even close caricatures of bork's positions. For instance, at that juncture, Bork had never even discussed publicly any issue about teaching evolution in the school, and had a broad view of freedom of speech and the press. Bork supported the civil Rigths Act and it's constitutionality, therefore, nobody would be sitting at segregated counters. Teddy was adept at lying, even when shown to be false in every respect, just to get what he and his marxist friends in congress wanted. They managed to smear Bork and his record so badly that other senators were needlessly spooked also. In fact, this book is excellent and everyone should read it, so they can break through the fog of lies and get the real deal. That goes for all of Bork's other books as well. His book "The Tempting of America" is the best book on const law and the role of judges in a const republic, that has ever been written. Every citizen needs to read to get the real deal, and understand how judges have twisted and deformed the law. Obama's subversive "judges", of course, have made the situation worse. What's the point of having a const in writing when the revisionists are just going to ignore it and create whatever they want in the name of the const.? So, it is Bork and his philosophy that PROTECTS the integrety of law.

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Judge Bork's final book: a farewell gift to readers

Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2013

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I pre-ordered Saving Justice when I learned Judge Bork left us with a final book before his passing away this past December. I eagerly awaited the book's arrival and it did not disappoint. Bork's account of his time in the Solicitor General's office and how he had to hit the ground running upon his arrival is fascinating reading. The book doesn't claim to be a history of the Nixon administration or a history about Richard Nixon. It's simply a retelling of episodes that occurred while Bork was a member of the Nixon Administration during 1973-1974. Bork notes: "For those who find their vocation in the law, the solicitor general position is truly a dream job, and is particularly pleasant in quiet times. I, however, was to hold the position in the most interesting of times." This book recounts those times and is a thoroughly enjoyable read.

Humorous anecdotes about Richard Nixon almost visibly recoiling at the first sight of Bork's reddish beard, which resembled those that anti-war protesters wore at the time are particularly amusing. Nixon prodding Bork about teaching at Yale, equally amusing: "A Yale professor with a beard, that's worth a body search right there!" Fortunately Bork talked Nixon out of the search. Bork goes on to give his firsthand accounts of Watergate, the Saturday Night Massacre and other adventures.

The Epilogue is a nice finish to the book. In it, Judge Bork writes about the farcical nature of Supreme Court confirmation hearings, and discusses how he responded to Senator Alan Simpson on the Senate Judiciary Committee during his confirmation hearings: "I would like to leave a reputation as a judge who understood constitutional governance and contributed his bit to maintaining it in the ways I have described before this committee. Our constitutional structure is the most important thing this nation has and I would like to help maintain it and to be remembered for that." I think Judge Bork can be confident that he indeed will be remembered this way. Judge Bork ends the book on a hopeful note, writing that "Originalism provides hope that the constitutional structure of our country will be maintained." Thank you, Judge Bork, for leaving us with that hope and for leaving us with one final wonderful book! Highly recommend!!

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Mr. Victor R. Daniels

This book is left me wanting more

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 29, 2018

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I didn't know much at all about Bork before I read this book. It is a slim volume indeed, and left me wanting to learn a lot more about him. He has an impressive intellect and is surprisingly funny. I instantly warmed to the guy. A good (if rather short) introduction to a very interesting character.

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