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Hardcover By Peter Charles Hoffer, Williamjames Hill Hoffer and N. E. H. Hull There are moments in American history when all eyes are focused on a federal court: when its...

  By Philippa Strum *Signed Bookplate In June 2001, there was a decidedly new look to the graduating class at Virginia Military Institute. For the first time ever, the line...

Hardcover By Kermit L. Hall and John J. Patrick With a survey of the thirty Supreme Court cases that, in the opinion of U.S. Supreme Court justices and leading civics...

Hardcover/Softcover By Nichola D. Gutgold The Supreme Court is one of the most traditional institutions in America that has been an exclusively male domain for almost two hundred years. From...

  By Walter Stahr *Signed Bookplate Salmon P. Chase is best remembered as a rival of Lincoln’s for the Republican nomination in 1860—but there would not have been a national Republican Party,...

Hardcover Edited by Clare Cushman The Supreme Court Justices: Illustrated Biographies 1789-2012, Third Edition provides a single-volume reference profiling every Supreme Court justice from John Jay through Elena Kagan. An...

By Jane Sherron de Hart In this large, comprehensive, revelatory biography, Jane De Hart explores the central experiences that crucially shaped Ginsburg’s passion for justice, her advocacy for gender equality,...

By Cliff Sloan The inside story of how one president forever altered the most powerful legal institution in the country—with consequences that endure today By the summer of 1941, in the...

By Jeffrey S. Sutton *Signed Bookplate When we think of constitutional law, we invariably think of the United States Supreme Court and the federal court system. Yet much of our...

By John Knox; Edited by Dennis J. Hutchinson and David J. Garrow My name will survive as long as man survives, because I am writing the greatest diary that has...

The first comprehensive historical treatment of resignations, retirements and and deaths explaining when and why justices have stepped down.

By Walter Stahr John Jay was a central figure in the early history of the American Republic. A New York lawyer, born in 1745, Jay served his country with the...