Adult Readers

By Keith L. Justice This is an update of a 1985 volume titled Public Office Index. Much has happened since that first edition was written—Ronald Reagan completed his second term...

By Ralph A. Rossum Lionized by the right and demonized by the left, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is the high court's quintessential conservative. Witty, outspoken, often abrasive, he is...

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...

By Louis Fisher The Supreme Court and Congress explores how the Court operates in relation to legislative action, as well as how it has defined the extent and limits of...

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 Louise V. North and Janet M. Wedge Correspondence by or to the First Chief Justice of the United States and His Wife

By John Niven Salmon P. Chase was one of the preeminent men of 19th-century America. A majestic figure, tall and stately, Chase was a leader in the fight to end...

By Jeffrey S. Sutton *Signed Bookplate America--encompassing the systems of all 51 governments--should have a role in assessing the right balance of power among all branches of our state and...

By George Martin Though he held no elected or appointed office, the New York City lawyer Charles C. Burlingham had great influence with those who did, and used it in...

Hardcover By David N. Gellman In Liberty's Chain, David N. Gellman shows how the Jay family, abolitionists and slaveholders alike, embodied the contradictions of the revolutionary age.  The Jays of New...