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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life
$35.00
By Jane Sherron de Hart In this large, comprehensive, revelatory biography, Jane De Hart explores the central experiences that crucially shaped Ginsburg’s passion for justice, her advocacy for gender equality,...
Making Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1936-1961
$70.00 – $175.00
By Mark V. Tushnet *Signed Bookplate From the 1930s to the early 1960s civil rights law was made primarily through constitutional litigation. Before Rosa Parks could ignite a Montgomery...
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 Court at War: FDR, His Justices, and the World They Made
$32.50
By Cliff Sloan The inside story of how one president forever altered the most powerful legal institution in the country—with consequences that endure today By the summer of 1941, in the...
Reconstructing Reconstruction: The Supreme Court and the Production of Historical Truth
By Pamela Brandwein Was slavery over when slaves gained formal emancipation? Was it over when the social, economic, and political situation for African Americans no longer mimicked the conditions of...
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...
Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment
$45.00
By Brad Snyder *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...
Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen
By Christopher Capozzola Want to make sense of the U.S. Constitution? This plain-English guide walks you through this revered document, explaining how the articles and amendments came to be and...
The Poetic Justice: A Memoir
$29.95
By John Charles Thomas (Author), W. Taylor Reveley III (Foreword) This inspiring memoir begins in 1983, on the day John Charles Thomas was sworn in as the first Black―and, at...
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