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Thanks for Listening: High Adventures in Journalism and Diplomacy

Thanks for Listening: High Adventures in Journalism and Diplomacy

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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

The Political Thought of Justice Antonin Scalia: A Hamiltonian on the Supreme Court

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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...
Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen

Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen

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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...
A History of The Supreme Court Revised Edition

A History of The Supreme Court Revised Edition

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By the late Bernard Schwartz (Author) When the first Supreme Court convened in 1790, it was so ill-esteemed that its justices frequently resigned in favor of other pursuits. John Rutledge...
The American Supreme Court, Sixth Edition (The Chicago History of American Civilization) Sixth Edition

The American Supreme Court, Sixth Edition (The Chicago History of American Civilization) Sixth Edition

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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...
Fair Labor Lawyer: The Remarkable Life of New Deal Attorney and Supreme Court Advocate Bessie Margolin

Fair Labor Lawyer: The Remarkable Life of New Deal Attorney and Supreme Court Advocate Bessie Margolin

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By Marlene Trestman (Author) Through a life that spanned every decade of the twentieth century, Supreme Court advocate Bessie Margolin shaped modern American labor policy while creating a place for...
The Great Dissenter, The Story of John Marshall Harlan, Hard Cover

The Great Dissenter, The Story of John Marshall Harlan, Hard Cover

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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...
The Free Press Crisis of 1800: Thomas Cooper's Trial for Seditious Libel

The Free Press Crisis of 1800: Thomas Cooper's Trial for Seditious Libel

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By Peter Charles Hoffer The far-reaching Sedition Act of 1798 was introduced by Federalists to suppress Republican support of French revolutionaries and imposed fines and imprisonment "if any person shall...
Mrs. Dred Scott: A Life on Slavery's Frontier

Mrs. Dred Scott: A Life on Slavery's Frontier

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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...
The Bakke Case: Race, Education, and Affirmative Action

The Bakke Case: Race, Education, and Affirmative Action

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By Howard Ball Twice denied admission to a California medical school despite better grades and test scores than successful minority applicants, Allan Bakke took his grievance to court and set...
The First Chief Justice: John Jay and the Struggle of a New Nation. Mark C. Dillon

The First Chief Justice: John Jay and the Struggle of a New Nation. Mark C. Dillon

$29.95
The first Chief Justice of the United States, John Jay faced many unique challenges. When the stability and success of the new nation were far from certain, a body of...
2022 Vol. 47 No. 2: Journal of Supreme Court History

2022 Vol. 47 No. 2: Journal of Supreme Court History

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"So Forcibly Presented by His Counsel, Who Are of His Race": Cornelius Jones, The Forgotten Black Supreme Court Advocate and Fighter for Civil Rights in the Plessy Era James A. Feldman Influence Without...

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