A Book Review . . . A Jurist Of First Rank
By JUDE DOUGHERTY Murphy, Bruce Allen. Scalia: A Court of One. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2014. xii +641 pp. This is an excellent biography of an extraordinary man, a jurist of first rank, an exemplary Catholic, and a devoted family man, not to mention his exceptional talent as a pianist and tuba player. The opening pages of the book provide an account of the Old World origins of the Scalia family. Antonin Gregory Scalia was the only child of Salvatore Eugene Scalia and Catherine Panaro Scalia. In the Sicilian tradition he was named after his paternal grandfather. Salvatore Eugene Scalia was born in 1903 in Sicily, where his father was a mechanic in Palermo. Salvatore arrived at Ellis Island…Continue Reading