The bestselling historian and journalist James Rosen provides the first comprehensive account of the brilliant and combative Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, whose philosophy and judicial opinions defined our legal era.

A decade in the making, Man of Ideas is the first comprehensive biography of Justice Antonin Scalia, the kid from Queens who became the most influential jurist of our time.

Deeply reported and based on unparalleled access to the documentary and personal sources, Man of Ideas reads like a novel while presenting startling new insights into the extraordinary life, mind, career, faith, and legacy of the man family and friends called Nino.

The acclaimed reporter and historian James Rosen, writing with an intellectual rigor and lively wit befitting his subject, offers a compelling portrait of an American legend with whom he corresponded, broke bread, drank wine, and braved the streets of the capital as a (nervous) passenger in the justice’s famously speedy BMW.

Rosen has unearthed previously unpublished writings from every phase of Scalia’s career, including private Supreme Court emails. He has interviewed Scalia’s family, classmates, students, colleagues from the Nixon, Ford, and Reagan administrations, priests, poker buddies, hunting companions, and Supreme Court brethren such as Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Clarence Thomas.

Man of Ideas is a landmark of modern biography, a rich and moving narrative that brings to life a towering figure who changed American law and society.