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The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox: A Year in the Life of a Supreme Court Clerk in FDR's Washington

The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox: A Year in the Life of a Supreme Court Clerk in FDR's Washington

$32.50$10.00
By John Knox; Edited by Dennis J. Hutchinson and David J. Garrow My name will survive as long as man survives, because I am writing the greatest diary that has...
Becoming Justice Blackmun

Becoming Justice Blackmun

$22.00
  By Linda Greenhouse *Signed Bookplate In this acclaimed biography, Linda Greenhouse of The New York Times draws back the curtain on America's most private branch of government, the Supreme...
Selected Letters of John Jay and Sarah Livingston Jay: Correspondence by or to the First Chief Justice of the United States and His Wife

Selected Letters of John Jay and Sarah Livingston Jay: Correspondence by or to the First Chief Justice of the United States and His Wife

$39.95$20.00
By Louise V. North and Janet M. Wedge Correspondence by or to the First Chief Justice of the United States and His Wife
Salmon P. Chase: A Biography

Salmon P. Chase: A Biography

$70.00
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...
Who Decides? States as Laboratories of Constitutional Experimentation

Who Decides? States as Laboratories of Constitutional Experimentation

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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...
CCB: The Life and Century of Charles C. Burlingham, New York's First Citizen, 1858-1959

CCB: The Life and Century of Charles C. Burlingham, New York's First Citizen, 1858-1959

$35.00$9.00
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...
Liberty's Chain: Slavery, Abolition, and the Jay Family of New York

Liberty's Chain: Slavery, Abolition, and the Jay Family of New York

$36.95
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...
Centennial Crisis: The Disputed Election of 1876

Centennial Crisis: The Disputed Election of 1876

$15.00
By William H. Rehnquist Near midnight on Election Day in November 1876, the returns coming into Republican National headquarters signaled a victory for the Democratic presidential candidate, Samuel J. Tilden....
Breaking Down Barriers

Breaking Down Barriers

$24.95
By David W. Levy (Author) For nearly sixty years, the University of Oklahoma, in obedience to state law, denied admission to African Americans. Only in October 1948 did this racial...

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