Opening paragraphs........

Earl Warren     Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court    1953-1969

   Earl Warren could not have become the man he was had he been raised anywhere but in the time and place of his upbringing.  He was a man for whom experience mattered - philosophy and reading influenced him less than the scratch of life - so geography left its mark.  And he grew up in  California, a state defined by its cultural and geographic extremism, where one's association with the industrious cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco or its vast agricultural valleys determined who one was.  Warren embodied a bit of each.  He was born in Southern California, raised in its San Joaquin Valley, and educated in the north.  By the time he was a young man, Warren was a Republican in the fashion of Los Angeles's leadership, a second-generation union man as one might expect of a San Franciscan, and a bit of Bakersfield rube.
-Jim Newton, Justice For All:  Earl Warren 
and the Nation He Made