Linda Greenhouse "Becoming Justice Blackmun"

As the U.S. Senate prepares to begin confirmation hearings for the president's Supreme Court nominee John Roberts, it's a good time to look back a few years, to the high court career of a Nixon appointee who achieved his greatest notoriety on the Supreme Court just three years into his 24-year tenure. Harry Blackmun died in 1999, leaving behind an astounding collection of paper that New York Times Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse has used in writing her new book Becoming Justice Blackmun.