Summer Reading

By Alexander Tsesis (Author) The history of America’s successes and failures in the battles for civil rights, from the Revolutionary period to today.Despite America’s commitment to civil rights from the earliest...

By Jack Goldsmith (Author) "The Irishman is great art . . . but it is not, as we know, great history . . . Frank Sheeran . . . surely didn’t...

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...

By Ted Cruz (Author) From Senator Ted Cruz, a timely, authoritative exploration of Clarence Thomas’s life, ideas, and lasting impact on constitutional lawFor over three decades, Clarence Thomas has stood...

By Raymond M. Kethledge (Author), Michael S. Erwin (Author), Jim Collins (Introduction) Throughout history, leaders have used solitude as a matter of course. Eisenhower wrote memoranda to himself during World War...

By Ross E. Davies The early 20th century also saw the beginning of the long and ongoing run of Casey at Bat as an analogical-metaphorical-comical device in commentary about the...

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...

By Hon. M. Margaret McKeown Author) U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas was a giant in the legal world, even if he is often remembered for his four wives,...

By Mollie Hemingway Justice Samuel Alito, the unflinching author of the Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, is so influential that many now refer to the “Alito Court.” But...

By Virginia M. Kendall (Author), T. Markus Funk (Author), Richard A. Posner (Foreword) Each year, more than two million children around the world fall victim to commercial sexual and labor...

Hardcover By Kenneth W. Jost The Supreme Court A to Z offers accessible information about the Supreme Court, including its history, traditions, organization, dynamics, and personalities. The entries in The...

By Christopher James Bonner (Author) Citizenship in the nineteenth-century United States was an ever-moving target. The Constitution did not specify its exact meaning, leaving lawmakers and other Americans to struggle...