It’s not every day that a 94 year-old releases a new book. But I can’t wait to read this insider account of how judges make decisions from the judge I admired most from my time clerking at the Second Circuit in 1982-83. Early in my tenure I helped the judge for whom I clerked draft an opinion. The attorneys in the case had relied on a precedent case from our circuit, which I didn’t think fit. I replaced it in my communications with the judge with a footnote citation to a district court opinion, but my judge preferred the original cite. I put it back and delivered our draft to Judge Newman In person at roughly 7 pm.. HIs clerks had already gone home and so he personally opened his chambers in stocking feet and welcomed me. When I arrived the next morning a 7:30 a.m. He had returned the draft with only one point of disagreement. He found the footnote citation to the circuit case I had put back to be inapposite and could we please remove it. They don’t make them like they used to.