Gerald Gunther's masterly study Learned Hand gives us the life of the man integrated with the life of the judge. It is the fullest, most sensitive, most penetrating of judicial biographies. I do not know its equal.
-- Judge John T. Noonan, Jr. New York Times Book Review

Brilliant biography...not only comprehensive but penetrating and illuminating as well.
-- Ronald Dworkin New York Review of Books

A remarkable book, unlike any biography I know. It is a law professor's lecture expanded to the size of a Victorian life-and-letters...[It is] a vast and passionate work, written by someone uniquely qualified to write it.
-- Sheldon Novick Los Angeles Times Book Review

A great biography...[Gunther's] approach is--as, given the occasion, it should be--balanced, forceful, judicious, and clear.
-- New Yorker

A beautifully textured and balanced portrait.
-- Jeffrey Rosen New Republic

Gunther's beautifully written book makes one appreciate Learned Hand the man as well. This is especially the case in Gunther's sensitive treatment of Hand's marriage to Francis Fincke and his accounts of Hand's other friendships..Gunther's narrative about Hand's deeds and writings is not only great judicial biography, it's a rich contribution totwentieth-century Americana.
-- Murray Dry Review of Politics