Amazon.com description: Product Description: The premise of this fascinating study is that judicial sobriety has been underappreciated in scholarship and commentary on the Supreme Court, and that this underappreciation has led to a devaluation of certain justices. The five justices treated in this book-Nathan Clifford, Stanley Matthews, Edward White, Fred M. Vinson, and Antonin Scalia-have all exercised sobriety on the bench, and all have consequently been dealt with unjustly. These judges realized that judicial sobriety begins with a recognition that law and politics are distinct and separate enterprises. The authors assert that a good and sober judge goes only about the business of applying the Constitution and the laws in cases and controversies before him, and does not attempt to apply creative jurisprudence. Sober as a Judge will prove to be an essential volume for scholars of political science, history, and law.