Adult Readers

*Signed Bookplate By Walter Stahr 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, and...

*Signed Bookplate By David Rubenstein Rubenstein—some of our nations’ greatest minds explore the inspiring story of America as a grand experiment in democracy, culture, innovation, and ideas.-Jill Lepore on the promise...

*Signed Bookplate By Randy E. Barnett The U.S. Constitution found in school textbooks and under glass in Washington is not the one enforced today by the Supreme Court. In Restoring...

By William H. Rehnquist In All the Laws but One, William H. Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States, provides an insightful and fascinating account of the history of civil...

*Signed Bookplate By Mark V. Tushnet From the 1930s to the early 1960s civil rights law was made primarily through constitutional litigation. Before Rosa Parks could ignite a Montgomery Bus...

By Peter Charles Hoffer, William James Hull Hoffer, N.E.H. Hull For more than two centuries, the U.S. Supreme Court has provided a battleground for nearly every controversial issue in our nation’s history....

By Jeffrey Rosen The Declaration of Independence identified “the pursuit of happiness” as one of our unalienable rights, along with life and liberty. Jeffrey Rosen, the president of the National...

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 Justice Thurgood Marshall. As...

By Norman I. Silber Guido Calabresi is an extraordinary person. His family, of Jewish heritage, occupied a secure and centuries-old position near the top of Italian society— until the rise of...

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 R. Kent Newmeyer In preparing the long-awaited second edition of his well-liked text, Kent Newmyer consulted the best and most relevant of the recent scholarship on the antebellum Court,...

*Hard-signed By Pamela Brandwein American constitutional lawyers and legal historians routinely assert that the Supreme Court's state action doctrine halted Reconstruction in its tracks. But it didn't. Rethinking the Judicial...