Battle for the Marble Palace: Abe Fortas, Earl Warren, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and the Forging of the Modern Supreme Court, Hardcover - Michael

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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...

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From Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis, authors of the PEN Center USA award-winning Dallas 1963, comes a madcap narrative about Timothy Leary's d...

From Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis, authors of the PEN Center USA award-winning Dallas 1963, comes a madcap narrative about Timothy Leary's d...

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Trevor Royle does for Culloden what Juliet Barker did for Agincourt, bringing us the definitive account of the battle and its wider role in the cre...

Publisher: Harvard University PressAuthor(s): Richard J. LazarusNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 140 x 211 x 28Cover type: Pap...

Appointed by Abraham Lincoln to the U.S. Supreme Court during the Civil War, Samuel Freeman Miller (1816--1890) served on the nation's highest trib...

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Reducere. The Heart of Atlanta Supreme Court decision stands among the court's most significant civil rights rulings. In Atlanta, Georgia, two arch segregati...

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

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

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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...

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