{"id":6150,"date":"2026-05-07T23:33:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T23:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/?p=6150"},"modified":"2026-05-07T23:33:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T23:33:18","slug":"revenge-for-the-sixties-by-peter-s-canellos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/revenge-for-the-sixties-by-peter-s-canellos\/","title":{"rendered":"<B>Revenge for the Sixties<\/B> by Peter S. Canellos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/243682720-revenge-for-the-sixties\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.gr-assets.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1762767391l\/243682720._SX98_.jpg\" alt=\"Revenge for the Sixties: Sam Alito and the Triumph of the Conservative Legal Movement\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/243682720-revenge-for-the-sixties\">Revenge for the Sixties: Sam Alito and the Triumph of the Conservative Legal Movement<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/2853895.Peter_S_Canellos\">Peter S. Canellos<\/a><br \/>\nMy rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/8583884269\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sam Alito is Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court Samuel Alito. The author does a good job of describing Alito&#8217;s family and upbringing is reasonably short, efficient ways without this turning into a real biography. This book focuses heavily on how Alito came to wend his way onto the Supreme Court and how he has chosen to wield his power there to complete the rightward tilt of that body. Alito is no doubt a man of high intellect and steely determination. He was almost a cipher throughout his days as a law student, attorney and Circuit Court judge, although those close to him, or who studied him as The Federalist Society did, knew of his strong conservative views. Now the world knows him as an arch conservative who flips his judicial philosophy repeatedly to favor the Republican party. The quotations from his various judicial opinions bring this out in stark relief.<\/p>\n<p>The title refers mostly to Alito&#8217;s time at Princeton for his undergraduate days. I had forgotten about that turbulent time. As I was on the west coast at the hotbed of dissent and anti-war picketing (Berkeley) at that time, I didn&#8217;t pay much attention to the fact that the same thing was happening at Princeton, the Berkeley of the East. Alito was very must offended by the disruption to his academic career the protests caused and the anti-government views of the protesters. He joined ROTC, one of the targets of the protests. According to the book, this whole experience colored his judicial and even life view. He&#8217;s punishing everyone now for the effrontery of the demonstrators et al. As an attorney and someone who turned down the Ivy League to stay at Berkeley, I may have a particular interest in this book that others might not share, but I found it very worthwhile.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/12975428-russell-atkinson\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revenge for the Sixties: Sam Alito and the Triumph of the Conservative Legal Movement by Peter S. Canellos My rating: 4 of 5 stars Sam Alito is Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court Samuel Alito. 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