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The American Supreme Court, Sixth Edition (The Chicago History of American Civilization) Sixth Edition
$29.00
By Robert G. McCloskey (Author), Sanford Levinson (Author). For more than fifty years, Robert G. McCloskey’s classic work on the Supreme Court’s role in constructing the US Constitution has introduced...
Genius for Justice: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Reform of American Law
$39.00
By Jose Anderson (Author) Dr. Charles Hamilton Houston was an outstanding Harvard-trained Supreme Court lawyer for the NAACP. As Dean of Howard University Law School, he mentored future Supreme Court...
The Great Dissenter, The Story of John Marshall Harlan, Hard Cover
$21.99 – $32.50
By Peter S. Canellos *Signed Bookplate The “superb” (The Guardian) biography of an American who stood against all the forces of Gilded Age America to fight for civil rights and...
Almost Citizens: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Constitution, and Empire
$29.99
By Sam Erman *Signed Bookplate Almost Citizens lays out the tragic story of how the United States denied Puerto Ricans full citizenship following annexation of the island in 1898. As...
Thanks for Listening: High Adventures in Journalism and Diplomacy
By Patricia Gates Lynch A remarkable memoir of one woman's adventures as a World War II military wife, a postwar observer of day to day developments at NATO and SHAPE...
The Political Thought of Justice Antonin Scalia: A Hamiltonian on the Supreme Court
By James B. Staab The Political Thought of Antonin Scalia: A Hamiltonian on the Supreme Court traces Justice Antonin Scalia's jurisprudence back to the political and constitutional thought of Alexander...
James Madison and the Spirit of Republican Self-Government
By Colleen A. Sheehan (Author) In the first study that combines an in-depth examination of Madison’s National Gazette essays of 1791–92 with a study of The Federalist, Colleen Sheehan traces...
Contempt of Court, The turn-of-The Century lynching that launched a hundred years of Federalism
$20.00
By Mark Curriden and Leroy Phillips In this profound and fascinating book, the authors revisit an overlooked Supreme Court decision that changed forever how justice is carried out in the...
Fair Labor Lawyer: The Remarkable Life of New Deal Attorney and Supreme Court Advocate Bessie Margolin
$24.95
By Marlene Trestman (Author) Through a life that spanned every decade of the twentieth century, Supreme Court advocate Bessie Margolin shaped modern American labor policy while creating a place for...
The Free Press Crisis of 1800: Thomas Cooper's Trial for Seditious Libel
By Peter Charles Hoffer The far-reaching Sedition Act of 1798 was introduced by Federalists to suppress Republican support of French revolutionaries and imposed fines and imprisonment "if any person shall...
Mrs. Dred Scott: A Life on Slavery's Frontier
$31.95
By Lea VanderVelde Among the most infamous U.S. Supreme Court decisions is Dred Scott v. Sandford . Despite the case's signal importance as a turning point in America's history, the...
The Bakke Case: Race, Education, and Affirmative Action
By Howard Ball Twice denied admission to a California medical school despite better grades and test scores than successful minority applicants, Allan Bakke took his grievance to court and set...
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