The humbling defeat became a private agony, one from which he never recovered."īut now the judge's death raises more questions-and it seems to be leading to a second, even more terrible scandal. But in a scene of bitter humiliation, televised across the country, his nomination collapsed in scandal. Many years before, he'd a earned a judge's highest prize: a Supreme Court nomination. A brilliant legal mind, conservative and famously controversial, Judge Garland made more enemies than friends. The Emperor of the title, Judge Oliver Garland, has just died, suddenly. It is the story of a complex family with a single, seductive link to the shadowlands of crime. The Emperor of Ocean Park is set in two privileged worlds: the upper crust African American society of the eastern seaboard-old families who summer on Martha's Vineyard-and the inner circle of an Ivy League law school.
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