Adult Readers

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 Clare Cushman (Editor), Todd C. Peppers (Editor) Supreme Court justices have long relied on law clerks to help process the work of the Court. Yet few outside the Court...

By Brad Snyder (Author) In 1912, a group of ambitious young men, including future Supreme Court justice Felix Frankfurter and future journalistic giant Walter Lippmann, became disillusioned by the sluggish...

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...

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 Ralph A. Rossum Lionized by the right and demonized by the left, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is the high court's quintessential conservative. Witty, outspoken, often abrasive, he is...

By Louise V. North and Janet M. Wedge Correspondence by or to the First Chief Justice of the United States and His Wife

By John Niven Salmon P. Chase was one of the preeminent men of 19th-century America. A majestic figure, tall and stately, Chase was a leader in the fight to end...

By Jeffrey S. Sutton *Signed Bookplate America--encompassing the systems of all 51 governments--should have a role in assessing the right balance of power among all branches of our state and...

By George Martin Though he held no elected or appointed office, the New York City lawyer Charles C. Burlingham had great influence with those who did, and used it in...

Hardcover By David N. Gellman In Liberty's Chain, David N. Gellman shows how the Jay family, abolitionists and slaveholders alike, embodied the contradictions of the revolutionary age.  The Jays of New...