American Default: The Untold Story of FDR, the Supreme Court, and the Battle Over Gold, Hardcover

DescriptionA Washington Post Notable Book of the YearA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice An award-winning constitutional law scholar at th...

Provides a history of the Court placed within the context of a broader history of the United States and its politics. In contrast to a typical book...

Authored by two leading scholars of the Supreme Court and its policy making, this study systematically presents and validates the use of the attitu...

DescriptionAfter a restrained 2017 term in which the Supreme Court muddled through most of its work with just eight justices, the court roared back...

Reducere. The ``fine biography`` and ``compelling personal story`` (The Wall Street Journal) of arguably the most influential member of Franklin Delano Roose...

Reducere. Many consider the Battle of Midway to have turned the tide of the Pacific War. It is without question one of the most famous battles in history. No...

Reducere. "Absorbing . . . Riveting . . . A legal thriller."--Kevin Boyle, The New York Times Book ReviewFollowing the Civil War, Colfax, Louisiana, was a to...

Reducere. "I am the last of the "Horn Singer" family of the Sioux Indian Tribe. I am an elder now. So, I have decided to write down on paper the truth my gra...

Reducere. An award-winning constitutional law historian examines case-based evidence that reveals the Supreme Court's longstanding support for white supremac...

Reducere. This powerful story documents the Battle of Iwo Jima from the perspective of extraordinary navy corpsman George Wahlen. After decades of silence, t...

Reducere. DescriptionThe fundamental fact about our Constitution is that it is old -- the oldest written constitution in the world. The fundamental challenge...

Reducere. Description1968 was a particularly tumultuous year in American history. The escalating war in Vietnam, the riots during the Democratic Convention, ...

Reducere. Shattered Sword [is] a necessary read for anyone interested in the Pacific War. - NYMAS Review Shattered Sword is the winner of the 2005 John Lyman...

Reducere. Description"Racist. Hero. Stubborn. Fighter. Chink. I've been called many things on the way to this moment, but ironically, I've never been called ...

"A compelling narrative of survival and redemption." --Robert Lindsey, author of The Falcon and the SnowmanForty years before the names Snowden and...

Reducere. Like the miner's canary, the Indian marks the shift from fresh air to poison gas in our political atmosphere; and our treatment of Indians, even mo...

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Awards🏆Winner (2005) - Bancroft Prize - (History)Contributor(s): Author: Michael J. KlarmanA monumental investigation of the Supreme Court's ruling...

Reducere. This book explores the implications of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Ohio et al. v. American Express, and the preceding litigation, for the tr...

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Reducere. Moored off the coast of Brooklyn, the derelict HMS Jersey was a living hell for thousands of Americans either captured by the British or accused of...

Reducere. At last, here is a book that tells the full story of the turning point in World War II's Battle of the Bulge--the story of five crucial days in whi...

DescriptionWith the Constitutional Convention in 1787, America was set on a course to develop a unique system of law with roots in the English comm...

Reducere. NOTE: This book contains graphic depictions of extreme crime and violence. Its content may not be suitable for all readers.Under the cover of night...

Reducere. ``Code Girls reveals a hidden army of female cryptographers, whose work played a crucial role in ending World War II.... Mundy has rescued a piece ...

Description"No soldier could ask for a sweeter resting place than on the field of glory where he fell. The land he died to save vies with the one w...

Reducere. On December 16, 1944, the vanguard of three German armies, totaling half a million men, attacked U.S. forces in the Ardennes region of Belgium and ...

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWASHINGTON POST BESTSELLERThe author of the celebrated Victory tells the fascinating story of the intertwined lives of San...

An enlightening narrative exploring an oft-overlooked aspect of the sixteenth president's life, An American Marriage reveals the tragic story of Ab...

Reducere. On December 17, 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge, more than eighty unarmedAmerican soldiers were shot down after having surrendered to an SS ta...

Reducere. Author Francis Bradford, a former Hall-Scott engineer, provides valuable resources and insight not available to any other Hall-Scott researcher. We...

Reducere. She's the most famous woman in history, yet almost nothing is known about her. Although she's portrayed as the gentlest and most tragic of all wome...

"We the People." The Constitution begins with those deceptively simple words, but how do Americans define that "We"? In We the People, Ben Railton ...

Reducere. "Like Curt Flood and Oscar Robertson, who paved the way for free agency in sports, Ed O'Bannon decided there was a principle at stake... O'Bannon g...

The story of the six-day battle that began the War in Afghanistan and how it set the scene for twenty years of conflict.Publisher: Welbeck Publishi...

Reducere. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising has become a symbol of heroism throughout the world. A short time before the uprising began, Pawel Frenkel addressed a m...

Reducere. If the U.S. Supreme Court teaches us anything, it is that almost everything is open to interpretation. Almost. But what's inarguable is that, while...

Reducere. The African American Struggle for Library Equality: The Untold Story of the Julius Rosenwald Fund Library Program unveils the almost forgotten phil...

Reducere. At 3: 17 p.m. on March 18, 1937, a natural gas leak beneath the London Junior-Senior High School in the oil boomtown of New London, Texas, created ...

"The gripping story of the most important environmental law case ever decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. Richard Lazarus's compelling narrative is ...

Reducere. The inspiring and previously untold history of the women considered-but not selected-for the US Supreme Court In 1981, Sandra Day O'Connor became t...

Reducere. In today's sport's world, the modern day athlete has attained rock-star status. To those who are legends and well deserving of their status, we giv...

DescriptionJustice Anthony Kennedy slipped out of the Supreme Court building on June 27, 2018, and traveled incognito to the White House to inform ...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the urban affairs correspondent of the New York Times--the story of a city through twenty-seven structures that define it. As New Y...

The left's partisan push to pack the Supreme Court with liberal justices has fully migrated from the fringes into the mainstream of Democratic poli...

Reducere. On the fortieth anniversary of the historic Miracle on Ice, Mike Eruzione--the captain of the 1980 U.S Men's Olympic Hockey Team, who scored the wi...

Reducere. The United States Supreme Court has numbered nine justices for the past 150 years. But that number is not fixed. With the Democrats controlling the...