Judge and Jury: The Life and Times of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis

by Pietrusza, David

• ISBN13: 9781888698091
• ISBN10: 1888698098
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-08-01
• Publisher: Natl Book Network

Summary

This book strips away the myths and facile explanations to reaveal the real Kenesaw Mountain Landis--with all the subtleties and contradictions that made him not only czar of baseball, but also the most famous, popular, and controversial federal judge in America.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii	(4)
Acknowledgments	xi	(2)
Introduction	xiii
Chapter 1 "I Had an Ambition to Become the Head of Something"	1	(13)
Chapter 2 "The Only Natural-Born Lawyer Connected with This Administration"	14	(15)
Chapter 3 "Roosevelt Had His Little Joke"	29	(18)
Chapter 4 Fifty-Eight Freight Cars of Silver	47	(18)
Chapter 5 "The Man of the Hour"	65	(14)
Chapter 6 "The Judge Is above the Law"	79	(15)
Chapter 7 "Direct and Forceful Methods"	94	(14)
Chapter 8 "Damn the Kaiser, and His Sons"	108	(8)
Chapter 9 "The Face of Andrew Jackson Three Years Dead"	116	(22)
Chapter 10 "Did the Judge Get a Bomb in the Mail This Morning?"	138	(15)
Chapter 11 "I Haven't Told Mrs. Landis Yet"	153	(20)
Chapter 12 "Regardless of the Verdict of Juries..."	173	(22)
Chapter 13 "The Most Bolshevik Doctrine I Ever Heard"	195	(18)
Chapter 14 "I Wish I Were President of the United States"	213	(16)
Chapter 15 "Who the Hell Does That Big Ape Think He Is?"	229	(12)
Chapter 16 "I'm as Innocent as a Child"	241	(13)
Chapter 17 "Baseball Is O.K."	254	(8)
Chapter 18 "They're Making a Goat out of Me"	262	(22)
Chapter 19 "This Is the Cobb-Speaker Case"	284	(28)
Chapter 20 "There Is No Gambling Connected with Baseball"	312	(16)
Chapter 21 "Darkness in the Middle of the Afternoon"	328	(19)
Chapter 22 "Big as a House, Isn't It?"	347	(24)
Chapter 23 "The Commissioner of All Time"	371	(19)
Chapter 24 "A Bundle of Nerves and Blood Vessels"	390	(15)
Chapter 25 "You Fellows Say I Am Responsible"	405	(26)
Chapter 26 "Pieces Were Dropping off of Me"	431	(22)
Notes	453	(68)
Bibliography	521	(14)
Index	535	(30)
About the Author	565