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The Tenth Justice: The Solicitor General and the Rule of Law, by Lincoln Caplan (Knopf, 340 pp., $19.95)

Lincoln Caplan, a writer for The New Yorker, doesn’t like the legal views and practices of Edwin Meese’s Justice Department: Justice has “exhausted the supply of synonyms for extremism in the law,” he writes. Caplan concentrates his fire on the office of the solicitor general, which he accuses the Reagan Administration of fatally corrupting.

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The Tenth Justice: The Solicitor General and the Rule of Law, by Lincoln Caplan (Knopf, 340 pp., $19.95)

Lincoln Caplan, a writer for The New Yorker, doesn’t like the legal views and practices of Edwin Meese’s Justice Department: Justice has “exhausted the supply of synonyms for extremism in the law,” he writes. Caplan concentrates his fire on the office of the solicitor general, which he accuses the Reagan Administration of fatally corrupting.