Great Dissenters

"That is certainly true in the case of the Harlans, as well. But what emerged from the parsing and assessing was something unexpected. It was not a story about roots or bloodlines. Nor was it fundamentally about exploitation, the pain of inequality, or even the way slavery perverted basic emotions; it was about how, despite all of those things, a feeling grew up between Robert and John Harlan that was authentic and organically human: respect."

Politico runs an excerpt from Peter S. Canellos's The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America's Judicial Hero.