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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...
A History of The Supreme Court Revised Edition
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By the late Bernard Schwartz (Author) When the first Supreme Court convened in 1790, it was so ill-esteemed that its justices frequently resigned in favor of other pursuits. John Rutledge...
Almost Citizens: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Constitution, and Empire
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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...
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
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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...
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...
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...
The Great Chief Justice: John Marshall and the Rule of Law
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By Charles F. Hobson John Marshall remains one of the towering figures in the landscape of American law. From the Revolution to the age of Jackson, he played a critical...
The First Chief Justice: John Jay and the Struggle of a New Nation. Mark C. Dillon
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The first Chief Justice of the United States, John Jay faced many unique challenges. When the stability and success of the new nation were far from certain, a body of...
Mrs. Dred Scott: A Life on Slavery's Frontier
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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...
John Marshall: Definer of a Nation
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By Jean Edward Smith It was in tolling the death of Chief Justice John Marshall in 1835 that the Liberty Bell cracked, never to ring again. An apt symbol of...
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