Adult Readers

By Peter Charles Hoffer, William James Hull Hoffer, N.E.H. Hull For more than two centuries, the U.S. Supreme Court has provided a battleground for nearly every controversial issue in our nation’s history....

By Jeffrey Rosen *Signed Editions Jeffrey Rosen recounts the history of the Supreme Court through the personal and philosophical rivalries that have transformed the law—and by extension, our lives. With...

By Richard Panchyk This lively and comprehensive activity book teaches young readers everything they need to know about the nation's highest court. Organized around keystones of the Constitution including free...

Paperback Edited by Clare Cushman and Melvin I. Urofsky Few decisions in constitutional law have had as dramatic an impact on American life as Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka,...

  By Clare Cushman *Signed Bookplate In the first Supreme Court history told primarily through eyewitness accounts from Court insiders, Clare Cushman provides readers with a behind-the-scenes look at the...

By Mark.V.Tushnet (Editor), Randall Kennedy (Foreword) Much has been written about Thurgood Marshall, but this is the first book to collect his own words. Here are briefs he filed as...

  By G. Edward White *Signed Bookplate In this revised third edition of a classic in American jurisprudence, G. Edward White updates his series of portraits of the most famous...

By Jon O. Newman (Author), Marin K. Levy (Author) Although the thirteen United States Courts of Appeals are the final word on 99 percent of all federal cases, there is no...

  By James F. Simon *Signed Bookplate The bitter and protracted struggle between President Thomas Jefferson and Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall defined the basic constitutional relationship between the...

By Peter S. Canellos *Signed Bookplate The “superb” (The Guardian) biography of an American who stood against all the forces of Gilded Age America to fight for civil rights and...

By Denise Kiernan and Joseph D'Agnese Unfold Book Jacket for a Full-Color Reproduction of the U.S. Constitution. With their book Signing Their Lives Away, Denise Kiernan and Joseph D’Agnese introduced...

By Douglas Rooks Melville Fuller, among the most prominent Maine natives of his day, is little known today. This groundbreaking biography, the first in 70 years, restores him to his...