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Recounts Franklin Roosevelt's fight during his first term with a narrow conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court who struck down several key elements of the New Deal legislation--forever transforming the political and constitutional landscape, saving the New Deal, splitting the Democratic Party, and ushering in an era of Republican dominance.--[source unknown]
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Description
viii, 484 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"The inside story of how one president forever altered the Supreme Court, with consequences that endure today. By the summer of 1941, in the ninth year of his presidency, Franklin Roosevelt had molded his Court. He had appointed seven of the nine justices (the most by any president except George Washington) and handpicked the chief justice. But war time the Roosevelt Court had two faces. One was bold and progressive, the other supine and abject, cowed...
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Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Description
x, 468 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"Drawing on the personal papers of justices as well as other archives, a first-of-its-kind book provides a fresh perspective at the Warren Burger Supreme Court, digging down to the roots of its most significant decisions and shows how their legacy affects us today,"--NoveList.
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Description
xiii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"[This book] argues that the years between FDR's death in 1945 and Chief Justice Earl Warren's confirmation in 1953 (the dawn of the Cold War) were, contrary to widespread belief, important years in Supreme Court history. Never before or since has a president so quickly and completely changed the ideological and temperamental composition of the Court. With remarkable swiftness and certainty, Truman constructed a Court on which he relied to lend constitutional...
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