The Brethren (non-fiction)

The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court

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Author	Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong
Country	United States
Language	English
Subject	Supreme Court of the United States
Published	1979 by Simon & Schuster
Pages	467
ISBN	0-671-24110-9
OCLC	61201839

The Brethren is a 1979 book by Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong. It gives a "behind-the-scenes" account of the United States Supreme Court during Warren Burger's early years as Chief Justice of the United States.

Using Woodward's trademark writing technique involving "off-the-record" sources, the book provides an account of the deliberations leading to some of the more controversial Court decisions from the 1970s. Among the cases with substantial treatment in the book was the decision in United States v. Nixon (1974), where the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon was legally obligated to turn over the Watergate tapes.

In 1985, upon the death of Associate Justice Potter Stewart, Woodward disclosed that Stewart had been the primary source for The Brethren.