The Supreme Court under Morrison R. Waite, 1874-1888 by Kens, Paul - 2010

Columbia SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2010. xvi, 219 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. "Constitutional and legal historian Paul Kens, a professor of political science and history at Texas State University at San Marcos, has provided a concise but thorough synthetic account of the U.S. Supreme Court during the chief justiceship of Morrison Waite. Kens's account places the Court's history into the larger context of the ongoing changes in the American economy and society, ranging from the latter years of Reconstruction through the rise of large industrial cities and American economic expansion." As new condition in like dustjacket . Cloth.