Adult Readers

Hardcover Edited by Clare Cushman The Supreme Court Justices: Illustrated Biographies 1789-2012, Third Edition provides a single-volume reference profiling every Supreme Court justice from John Jay through Elena Kagan. An...

The first comprehensive historical treatment of resignations, retirements and and deaths explaining when and why justices have stepped down.

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,...

By Nancy Maveety In Glass and Gavel, noted legal expert Nancy Maveety has written the first book devoted to alcohol in the nation’s highest court of law, the United States Supreme...

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...

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

By Laura Weinrib (Author) In the early decades of the twentieth century, business leaders condemned civil liberties as masks for subversive activity, while labor sympathizers denounced the courts as shills...

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 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...

By Amy Coney Barrett (Author) Coming Soon! September 9th From Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a glimpse of her journey to the Court and an account of her approach...

By Todd C. Peppers (Editor) In his earlier books, In Chambers and Of Courtiers and Kings, Todd C. Peppers provided an insider’s view of the Supreme Court from the perspective of the clerks who...

By Jennifer Barnes Bowie (Author), Donald R. Songer (Author), John Szmer (Author) For most of their history, the U.S. courts of appeals have toiled in obscurity, well out of the...