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Supreme Court : The Personalities and Rivalries the Defined America
by Jeffrey Rosen
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- near fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0805086854
- ISBN 13
- 9780805086850
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New York: Henry Holt, December 2007. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition (stated) / full number line. Near Fine. Lightly tanned, but unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers lightly rubbed. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 274 pages.
With studies of four crucial conflicts-Chief Justice John Marshall and President Thomas Jefferson; post-Civil War justices John Marshall Harlan and Oliver Wendell Holmes; liberal icons Hugo Black and William O. Douglas; and conservative stalwarts William H. Rehnquist and Antonin Scalia-Rosen brings vividly to life the perennial rivalry between those justices guided by strong ideology and those who cared more about the court as an institution, forging coalitions and adjusting to new realities. He ends with a revealing conversation with Chief Justice John Roberts.
With studies of four crucial conflicts-Chief Justice John Marshall and President Thomas Jefferson; post-Civil War justices John Marshall Harlan and Oliver Wendell Holmes; liberal icons Hugo Black and William O. Douglas; and conservative stalwarts William H. Rehnquist and Antonin Scalia-Rosen brings vividly to life the perennial rivalry between those justices guided by strong ideology and those who cared more about the court as an institution, forging coalitions and adjusting to new realities. He ends with a revealing conversation with Chief Justice John Roberts.
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- Title
- Supreme Court : The Personalities and Rivalries the Defined America
- Author
- Jeffrey Rosen
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Paperback Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0805086854
- ISBN 13
- 9780805086850
- Publisher
- Henry Holt
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- December 2007
- Keywords
- law, biography, history, constitution, courts, government, politics, United States
- Bookseller catalogs
- Politics & Government; History; Biographies; Law;
- Size
- 8vo
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