*'Chief Justice John Marshall's battles with Thomas Jefferson and then Andrew Jackson,
the two populist presidents in question, seem freshly relevant in our age of renewed anxieties about the future of the American republic. And, as Richard Brookhiser’s fine new biography, “John Marshall,” makes clear, the polarization of the age of Marshall matched (or even surpassed) our current battles over the composition of the Supreme Court. What differed in Marshall’s day was the great chief’s ability to win over Republican justices appointed by his archrival, Thomas Jefferson, and to join him in a series of unanimous opinions. By persuading the justices to set aside their partisan differences and to speak in one voice, Marshall established the court as an emblem of bipartisan legitimacy in a polarized time.'>>>
JOHN MARSHALL
The Man Who Made the Supreme Court
By Richard Brookhiser
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/07/books/review/richard-brookhiser-john-marshall-biography.html?
