In Brief Authority, From the Years with Roosevelt to the Nurnberg..

1962. Authorial presentation copy to John Moutoux.. Authorial presentation copy to John Moutoux. A Presentation Copy from the Author Biddle, Francis [1886-1968]. In Brief Authority: From the Years with Roosevelt to the Nurnberg Trial. Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Co., 1962. x, 494 pp. Hardcover with moderate edgewear, lightly soiled dust jacket, author inscription to front free endpaper: "For/ Katherine and John Moutoux/ with warm regards, and/ renewed memories of T.V.A./ Mar-17-1963/ Francis Biddle." $125. * In addition to serving as U.S. Attorney General from 1941-1945, Biddle held a number of other important legal positions, including service as a judge at the Nuremberg trials and chief counsel to the Congressional committee investigating the Tennessee Valley Authority from 1938 to 1939. John Moutoux [1901-1979] was a Knoxville journalist who covered the T.V.A. investigation. (He is perhaps best remembered for breaking the story of the prosecution of John Thomas Scopes and his subsequent coverage of the Scopes trial.).