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*Signed Bookplate By David S. Schwartz 2019 marked the 200th anniversary of one of the most important Supreme Court decisions in American history: McCulloch v. Maryland. The state of Maryland...

*Signed Bookplate By Melvin I. Urofsky As a young lawyer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Louis Brandeis, born into a family of reformers who came to the...

*Signed Bookplate By Helen J. Knowles The US Supreme Court’s 1937 decision in West Coast Hotel v. Parrish, upholding the constitutionality of Washington State’s minimum wage law for women, had...

*Signed Bookplate In this sweeping narrative of Felix Frankfurter, Brad Snyder offers a full and fascinating portrait of the remarkable life and legacy of a long-misunderstood American figure. This is...

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...

*Signed Bookplate By Lucas E. Morel In this persuasive work of intellectual history, Lucas E. Morel argues that the most important influence on Abraham Lincoln’s political thought and practice was...

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...

*Signed Bookplate By Cynthia Nicoletti This book focuses on the post-Civil War treason prosecution of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, which was seen as a test case on the major question...

*Signed Bookplate By Linda Greenhouse In this acclaimed biography, Linda Greenhouse of The New York Times draws back the curtain on America's most private branch of government, the Supreme Court....

*Signed Bookplate By Jeffrey S. Sutton 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...

*Signed Bookplate By James F. Simon The bitter feud between President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Chief Justice Earl Warren framed the tumultuous future of the modern civil rights movement. Eisenhower...

*Signed Bookplate By Kevin J. McMahon Most analysts have deemed Richard Nixon’s challenge to the judicial liberalism of the Warren Supreme Court a failure—“a counterrevolution that wasn’t.” Nixon’s Court offers...