Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy to release memoir reflecting on growing up, landmark cases

Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy is set to release a two-volume memoir in the fall, reflecting on his childhood in California and his 30 years on the court.

"In ‘Life and Law,’ he explains the why’s and how’s of judging," Simon & Schuster’s announcement reads in part.

"The second volume is filled with moving portraits of Justices O’Connor, Rehnquist, Scalia and Ginsburg that go along with the account of how Kennedy decided his views in the landmark cases. But it is the first volume about his youth in Sacramento and his decade as a practicing lawyer that explains the judicial giant. Readers will see the child who turns into the man, who shaped America as much as any Washington figure in the 21st century."