James Rosen

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Thank you on all accounts, Steve, and it's great to be back with you.

You asked about the time.

I steal it from my family.

And, you know, this originally began, this book, as a concise biography of Antonin Scalia.

And as Mrs. Rosen can tell you, I don't do anything concisely.

and I wrote about 170,000 words, and I had just gotten the man to sit down in his chair at the Supreme Court.

So that was volume one, published three years ago, Scalia Rise to Greatness, 1936 to 1986.

The new book, released today, and you're very kind to have me on to promote it,

is Scalia, Supreme Court years 1986 to 2001.

And this covers the first half of Justice Scalia's nearly 30 terms on the Supreme Court.

It starts with his first day on the court and takes us all the way through the national trauma of Bush v. Gore.

And what inspired me was watching Scalia on television when I was in middle school and high school.

He would participate in these PBS debate programs.

And they were sort of theater in the round type settings, and they would have these eminent minds convened to discuss hypothetical scenarios like ticking bomb scenarios and so forth.

And the people convened would be Antonin Scalia, Dan Rather, Gerald Ford, you know, Alexander Haig.

And Scalia struck me as being fundamentally different from everyone else on that stage.

He was, first of all, like me, an outer borough New Yorker, where he was born in New Jersey, but he was raised in Queens.