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Book SynopsisMy name will survive as long as man survives, because I am writing the greatest diary that has ever been written. I intend to surpass Pepys as a diarist.When John Frush Knox (1907-1997) wrote these words, he was in the middle of law school, and his attempt at surpassing Pepyspart scrapbook, part social commentary, and part recollectionhad already reached 750 pages. His efforts as a chronicler might have landed in a family attic had he not secured an eminent position after graduation as law clerk to Justice James C. McReynoldsarguably one of the most disagreeable justices to sit on the Supreme Courtduring the tumultuous year when President Franklin D. Roosevelt tried to pack the Court with justices who would approve his New Deal agenda. Knox's memoir instead emerges as a record of one of the most fascinating periods in American history. The Forgotten Memoir of John Knoxedited by Dennis J. Hutchinson and David J. Garrowoffers a candid, at times naïve, insider's view of the showdown bet
