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The Pursuit of Justice: Supreme Court Decisions that Shaped America

The Pursuit of Justice: Supreme Court Decisions that Shaped America

$49.00
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...
The Bakke Case: Race, Education, and Affirmative Action

The Bakke Case: Race, Education, and Affirmative Action

$12.95
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...
Presidents, Vice Presidents, Cabinet Members, Supreme Court Justices, 1789-2003: Vital and Official Data

Presidents, Vice Presidents, Cabinet Members, Supreme Court Justices, 1789-2003: Vital and Official Data

$44.95
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...
The Keeper of the Flame: The Supreme Court Opinions of Justice Clarence Thomas 1991-2005

The Keeper of the Flame: The Supreme Court Opinions of Justice Clarence Thomas 1991-2005

$10.00
By Henry Mark Holzer The Keeper of the Flame is an examination and analysis of Justice Clarence Thomas's majority, concurring, and dissenting opinions, showing extensively, in his own words, what...
Seeking Justices: The Judging of Supreme Court Nominees

Seeking Justices: The Judging of Supreme Court Nominees

$11.00
By Michael Comiskey In the long shadows cast by the Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas nominations, Supreme Court confirmations remain highly contentious and controversial. This is due in part to...
Antonin Scalia's Jurisprudence: Text and Tradition

Antonin Scalia's Jurisprudence: Text and Tradition

$39.95
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...
Belva Lockwood: The Woman Who Would Be President

Belva Lockwood: The Woman Who Would Be President

$89.00
By Jill Norgren In Belva Lockwood: The Woman Who Would Be President, prize-winning legal historian Jill Norgren recounts, for the first time, the life story of one of the nineteenth...
The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox: A Year in the Life of a Supreme Court Clerk in FDR's Washington

The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox: A Year in the Life of a Supreme Court Clerk in FDR's Washington

$32.50
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 Supreme Court and Congress

The Supreme Court and Congress

$145.00
Hardcover 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...
The Rhetoric of Supreme Court Women: From Obstacles to Options

The Rhetoric of Supreme Court Women: From Obstacles to Options

$50.99 – $69.97
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...
Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court

Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court

$17.00
By Jan Crawford Greenburg Drawing on unprecedented access to the Supreme Court justices themselves and their inner circles, acclaimed ABC News legal correspondent Jan Crawford Greenburg offers an explosive news...
Justice Deferred

Justice Deferred

$35.00
In the first comprehensive accounting of the US Supreme Court’s race-related jurisprudence, Justice Deferred is the first book that comprehensively charts nearly two hundred cases involving America’s racial minorities. The authors probe...

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