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 |
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
Title | Battle for the Marble Palace PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Bobelian |
Publisher | Schaffner Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781943156665 |
"'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
Title | Supreme Inequality PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Cohen |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 458 |
Release | 2021-02-23 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0735221529 |
“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
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 |
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
Title | Lincoln's Boys PDF eBook |
Author | Joshua Zeitz |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 2014-02-04 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1101638079 |
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
Title | Showdown PDF eBook |
Author | Wil Haygood |
Publisher | Knopf |
Pages | 418 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0307957195 |
"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
Title | LBJ's 1968 PDF eBook |
Author | Kyle Longley |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 379 |
Release | 2018-02-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108140572 |
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.