Bruce Allen Murphy is the Fred Morgan Kirby Professor of Civil Rights in the Department of Government and Law at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.. He teaches American Constitutional Law, Civil Rights and Liberties, American Governme
...MoreBruce Allen Murphy is the Fred Morgan Kirby Professor of Civil Rights in the Department of Government and Law at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.. He teaches American Constitutional Law, Civil Rights and Liberties, American Government, and judicial biographical writing. He has written three nationally-recognized biographies of Supreme Court justices: Wild Bill: the Legend and Life of William O. Douglas (Random House, 2003), Fortas: the Rise and Ruin of a Supreme Court Justice (William Morrow, 1988), and The Brandeis/Frankfurter Connection: the Secret Political Activities of Two Supreme Court Justices(Oxford University Press, 1982). The sixth edition of his introductory American Government textbook, Approaching Democracy, (co-written for Prentice Hall with Professor Larry Berman of the University of California at Davis) will be available in 2008.
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New Directions in the Humanities
