Book Reviews : A Man's Reach: The Selected Writings of Judge Jerome Frank. Edited by BARBARA FRANK KRISTEIN. (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1964. Pp. xxxviii, 450. $10.00.)

• Date: 01 March 1966
• Published date: 01 March 1966
• DOI: 10.1177/106591296601900137
• Subject Matter: Articles

178
descriptions as well as estimates of Soviet expenditures for research and development.
The author’s presentation reveals no bias toward the Russians, one way or the
other. Rather than being controversial, the author has provided a quantitative and
descriptive study in considerable depth on the functions, personnel, institutions, and
expenditures for Soviet research and development.
RICHARD C. GRIPP
San Diego State College
A Man’s Reach: The Selected Writings of Judge Jerome Frank. Edited by BARBARA
FRANK KRISTEIN. (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1964. Pp. xxxviii,
450. $10.00.)
To review this book in its substantive aspects in this short space is hardly pos-
sible, for such would require an essay not of a book but of a man, a movement, a
philosophy. Too, it is somewhat less useful to renew this old acquaintance in an
audience of social scientists rather than among legal scholars and practitioners, for it
is the latter fraternity which has proven least receptive to Jerome Frank while re-
maining most in need of his delightful, irreverent skepticism concerning the law and
its conveyors.
The best of Frank is here, logically organized and edited by his daughter and
collaborator, Mrs. Kristein. To the reader uninitiated into the realm of Legal Real-
ism in general and Frankean thought in particular, the Introduction by Edmond
Cahn should prove most helpful as an overview of the man and his jurisprudence,
while the brief Foreword provides a more personal glimpse of Frank by one of his
long-time friends and admirers, Mr. Justice Douglas.
&dquo;A paragon of trimmers&dquo; is the expression Cahn uses to describe Judge Frank.
And so he was. Ever ready and able to combat the drift of extant intellectual cur-
rents, even more was he concerned lest the reformers become worse than the re-
formed, swamping the craft with their new orthodoxy. Invariably on the wrong side
of the boat, Frank’s was indeed a lonely position, but in the finest intellectual tra-
dition. If he...