Conflicting Loyalties: Law and Politics in the Attorney General's Office, 1789-1990. (book reviews)

Sometimes patience, an indispensable virtue in the scholar's enterprise, has rewards unforeseen even for political scientists, who are fortunate if their work can avoid the profession's notorious Bermuda triangle, that indeterminable period between the completion of their research and its publication that so often sucks the intellectual life from whatever were the merits of their original idea.

No such fate befalls the authors of these three important books on the complex, reluctant but inseparable relationship between our institutions charged with the development and enforcement of ...

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