The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court, Paperback

'One of the most compelling stories I've seen about what it's actually like to serve the American people' BARACK OBAMA A revelatory, behind-the-sce...

Publisher: Penguin Putnam IncAuthor(s): Who HQNumber of pages: 112Collection: What Was?Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 136 x 192 x 10Cover type: ...

Reducere. In The Supreme Court, Lawrence Baum provides a brief yet comprehensive introduction to the U.S. Supreme Court, one that is balanced and illuminatin...

The long-awaited insider's look at one of the design milestones of the twenty-first century: Michael S Smith's celebrated decoration of the Obama W...

Reducere. The Brethren is the first detailed behind-the-scenes account of the Supreme Court in action. Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong have pierced its secr...

Reducere. The sixteenth Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist's classic book offers a lively and accessible history of the Supreme Court. Chief Justice Rehnquis...

Reducere. Post-Conviction Relief: C.O.A. In the Supreme Court is a big step in the fight against Mass-Incarceration, America's greatest social crisis. This b...

Reducere. "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 slant.'"...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Renee Knake JeffersonIllustration(s): 15 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022...

Publisher: Vintage PublishingAuthor(s): Lady HaleNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 195 x 25Cover type: Paperback / softba...

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

VOTED ONE OF GLAMOUR'S BEST BOOKS TO READ IN 2018The compulsively readable, behind-the-scenes memoir that takes readers inside the Obama White Hous...

Description"Young women can run the world. These are the stories of those who did..." @hillaryclinton "An excellent guide to the how and why of a l...

Reducere. John Ashbery writes like no one else among contemporary American poets. In the construction of his intricate patterns, he uses words much as the co...

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

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...

Equal to Everything is a beautifully illustrated, fictionalised tale based on the life of Lady Hale, President of the Supreme Court of England and ...

Reducere. New York Times Bestseller (Humor)"The book everyone is laughing about "--Joe Scarborough, Morning JoeFor two centuries, presidents hoping to secure...

Tells the inside story of those thrilling months, from the collapsing House of Clinton to the erratic John McCain and the bewildering Sarah Palin. ...

An urgent, sharply observed chronicle of the Supreme Court during twelve months unlike any other in American history, by the legendary New York Tim...

Reducere. What does the U.S. Supreme Court do? Learn about who can be on the Supreme Court, how they are chosen, where they work, and more. Descriptive main ...

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...

A collection of striking and intimate photographs of Michelle Obama--many never before seen--coupled with personal reflections and behind-the-scene...

Reducere. Exploring the little-known history behind the legal doctrine of prior appropriation--"first in time is first in right"--used to apportion water res...

Fifty years after John F. Kennedy's assassination, presidential historian Robert Dallek, whom The New York Times calls "Kennedy's leading biographe...

During the course of American history, wrongful events have occurred and certain Americans have stood up and spoken out against these wrongs: Tom P...

Reducere. A tiny, ebullient Jew who started as America's leading liberal and ended as its most famous judicial conservative. A Klansman who became an absolut...

This book will be useful to scholars, political activists, journalists and others interested in law, politics, and social change. In focusing on th...

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

Reducere. DescriptionThe life of John Marshall, Founding Father and America's premier chief justice In 1801, a genial and brilliant Revolutionary War veteran...

This first-of-its-kind book speaks to key normative and empirical issues in American government. It will appeal to those interested in the presiden...

Reducere. Justin Trudeau, Judicial Corruption and the Supreme Court of Canada: Aliens and Archons in Our Midst takes us on a journey from the alleged corrupt...

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

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

Reducere. DescriptionUntil The New Press first published "May It Please the Court" in 1993, few Americans knew that every case argued before the Supreme Cour...

Reducere. The powerful story an illegitimate, black foster care child, the unwavering faith of his white adoptive mother, and their improbable journey to pro...

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...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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

Police are nine times more likely to kill African-American men than they are other Americans--in fact, nearly one in every thousand will die at the...

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...

This classic book on the role of the Supreme Court in our democracy traces the history of the Court, assessing the merits of various decisions alon...

Each year, the Supreme Court of the United States announces new rulings with deep consequences for our lives. This third volume in Palgrave's SCOTU...

Publisher: Regnery PublishingAuthor(s): Ilya ShapiroNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 140 x 208 x 34Cover type: Paperback / sof...

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

Reducere. "Superbly well written . . . a wonderfully informative guide to the Supreme Court both past and present."--David J. Garrow, American HistoryJeffrey...

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...