Journalist Peter Canellos takes a look at the family background, childhood and college experience of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, who has written major opinions ending the federal right to abortion and restricting the Voting Rights Act.
Here & Now‘s Indira Lakshmanan speaks with Canellos, author of “Revenge for the Sixties: Sam Alito and the Triumph of the Conservative Legal Movement.”
Book excerpt: ‘Revenge for the Sixties’
By Peter Canellos
Excerpted from “Revenge for the Sixties: Sam Alito and the Triumph of the Conservative Legal Movement.” Copyright © 2026 by Peter S. Canellos. Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.
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