Abe Fortas: a Biography

Abe Fortas: a Biography
Title Abe Fortas: a Biography PDF eBook
Author Laura Kalman
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 546
Release 1990-01-01
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780300173697

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An engrossing intellectual biography... Kalman has set forth the bright and the dark sides of Abe Fortas in a well written, thoughtful biography that is a significant contribution to the literature on recent American history.

Battle for the Marble Palace

Battle for the Marble Palace
Title Battle for the Marble Palace PDF eBook
Author Michael Bobelian
Publisher Schaffner Press
Pages 0
Release 2019
Genre History
ISBN 9781943156665

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"'1968: That moment began the politicization of the confirmation process and turned it into the ugly ritual we know too well'. Faced with the pending resignation of Chief Justice Earl Warren, the Supreme Court's longtime liberal kingpin, President Lyndon Johnson named his longtime adviser Abe Fortas to become Warren's successor. What Washington pundits believed would be a routine confirmation instead ignited a fractious war between liberals and conservatives eager to seize control of the judicial body. Michael Bobelian reveals the extent of the unprecedented machinations perpetrated to capture the Court, including LBJ's removal of two justices to make room for his favorites, the Senate's first filibuster against a Court nominee, Strom Thurmond's airing of pornographic movies to showcase Fortas's purported moral turpitude, and Richard Nixon who, in his zeal to win the presidency, stoked the fires of hatred and bigotry to transform the Court into a political weapon."--

Supreme Inequality

Supreme Inequality
Title Supreme Inequality PDF eBook
Author Adam Cohen
Publisher Penguin
Pages 458
Release 2021-02-23
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0735221529

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“With Supreme Inequality, Adam Cohen has built, brick by brick, an airtight case against the Supreme Court of the last half-century...Cohen’s book is a closing statement in the case against an institution tasked with protecting the vulnerable, which has emboldened the rich and powerful instead.” —Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor, Slate A revelatory examination of the conservative direction of the Supreme Court over the last fifty years. In Supreme Inequality, bestselling author Adam Cohen surveys the most significant Supreme Court rulings since the Nixon era and exposes how, contrary to what Americans like to believe, the Supreme Court does little to protect the rights of the poor and disadvantaged; in fact, it has not been on their side for fifty years. Cohen proves beyond doubt that the modern Court has been one of the leading forces behind the nation’s soaring level of economic inequality, and that an institution revered as a source of fairness has been systematically making America less fair. A triumph of American legal, political, and social history, Supreme Inequality holds to account the highest court in the land and shows how much damage it has done to America’s ideals of equality, democracy, and justice for all.

Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court

Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court
Title Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court PDF eBook
Author David G. Dalin
Publisher Brandeis University Press
Pages 384
Release 2017-04-04
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 161168238X

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The first history of the eight Jewish men and women who have served or who currently serve as justices of the Supreme Court

Lincoln's Boys

Lincoln's Boys
Title Lincoln's Boys PDF eBook
Author Joshua Zeitz
Publisher Penguin
Pages 402
Release 2014-02-04
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1101638079

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From the author of the forthcoming Building the Great Society (February 2018), an intimate look into Lincoln’s White House and the aftermath of his death, via the lives of his two closest aides In this timely look into Abraham Lincoln’s White House, and the aftermath of his death, noted historian and political advisor Joshua Zeitz presents a fresh perspective on the sixteenth U.S. president—as seen through the eyes of Lincoln’s two closest aides and confidants, John Hay and John Nicolay. Lincoln’s official secretaries, Hay and Nicolay enjoyed more access, witnessed more history, and knew Lincoln better than anyone outside of the president’s immediate family. They were the gatekeepers of Lincoln’s legacy. Drawing on letters, diaries, and memoirs, Lincoln’s Boys is part political drama and part coming-of-age tale—a fascinating story of friendship, politics, war, and the contest over history and remembrance.

Showdown

Showdown
Title Showdown PDF eBook
Author Wil Haygood
Publisher Knopf
Pages 418
Release 2015
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0307957195

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"The author of The Butler presents a revelatory biography of the first African-American Supreme Court justice--one of the giants of the civil rights movement, and one of the most transforming Supreme Court justices of the 20th century, "--Novelist.

LBJ's 1968

LBJ's 1968
Title LBJ's 1968 PDF eBook
Author Kyle Longley
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 379
Release 2018-02-22
Genre History
ISBN 1108140572

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1968 was an unprecedented year in terms of upheaval on numerous scales: political, military, economic, social, cultural. In the United States, perhaps no one was more undone by the events of 1968 than President Lyndon Baines Johnson. Kyle Longley leads his readers on a behind-the-scenes tour of what Johnson characterized as the 'year of a continuous nightmare'. Longley explores how LBJ perceived the most significant events of 1968, including the Vietnam War, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr and Robert Kennedy, and the violent Democratic National Convention in Chicago. His responses to the crises were sometimes effective but often tragic, and LBJ's refusal to seek re-election underscores his recognition of the challenges facing the country in 1968. As much a biography of a single year as it is of LBJ, LBJ's 1968 vividly captures the tumult that dominated the headlines on a local and global level.