Edward H. Levi

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Edward Hirsch Levi was an American academic leader, scholar, and statesman who served as United States Attorney General. He is regularly cited as the "model of a modern attorney general," the "greatest lawyer of his time," and considered, along with Yale's Whitney Griswold, the greatest of postwar American university presidents. He is credited with restoring order after Watergate and the consensus of scholars is that he is one of only two truly outstanding AGs in modern times. Levi was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son and grandson of rabbis. He received his A.B. Phi Beta Kappa from the undergraduate college of the University of Chicago in 1932, and later his J.D. at the University of Chicago Law School in 1935. The following year he was named an assistant professor of law at the Law School and was admitted to the Illinois bar. He earned a J.S.D. from Yale University, where he was also a Sterling Fellow in 1938