Revenge for the Sixties: Sam Alito and the Triumph of the Conservative Legal Movement

The first-ever biography of the most pivotal Justice on the Supreme Court whose decisions, like the overturning of Roe, will drive the reshaping of America, by prize-winning journalist Peter Canellos. When the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Dobbs v.Jackson, the landmark case overturning Roe v. Wade, it marked a turning point in the lives of millions of Americans.It was also the culmination of a decades-long movement whose grievances were embodied by the man who wrote the court’s opinion: Samuel Anthony Alito Jr. Steely in his demeanor, with an impassive appearance that defies changing fashions, Alito could be the family lawyer in a 1960s television drama.But when he talks there is an emotional undercurrent, a fast-flowing stream beneath a placid surface.This is a man driven to push boundaries and mold ideas.His aim is to right the wrongs of the past six decades, as he saw them.He was the prized son of an Italian-born father and a mother whose parents emigrated from Italy sho