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  • What Kind of Nation

    Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Stru

    The bitter and protracted struggle between President Thomas Jefferson and Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall defined the basic constitutional relationship between the executive and judicial branches of government. More than one hundred fifty years later, their clashes still reverberate in constitutional debates and political battles.In this dramatic and fully accessible account of these ... Leer más

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  • Courting History

    A Supreme Court Historian Reflects on His Life and Career

    A Supreme Court historian’s memoir places court events in the larger context of American history.Legal scholar James F. Simon has written many acclaimed books on the history of the US Supreme Court, but in this memoir, he turns his attention to a more personal subject: himself. Simon, a native of Fort Worth, details what it was like growing up in segregated Texas. He left home for college and law ... Leer más

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  • Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney

    Slavery, Secession, and the President's War Powers

    The clashes between President Abraham Lincoln and Chief Justice Roger B. Taney over slavery, secession, and the president's constitutional war powers went to the heart of Lincoln's presidency. James Simon, author of the acclaimed What Kind of Nation -- an account of the battle between President Thomas Jefferson and Chief Justice John Marshall to define the new nation -- brings to vivid life the ... Leer más

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  • Eisenhower vs. Warren

    The Battle for Civil Rights and Liberties

    The epic 1950s battle that would shape the legal future of the civil rights movement is chronicled here for the first time.The bitter feud between President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Chief Justice Earl Warren framed the tumultuous future of the modern civil rights movement. Eisenhower was a gradualist who wanted to coax white Americans in the South into eventually accepting integration, while ... Leer más

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  • The Presidents and the Supreme Court

    What Kind of Nation; Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney; FDR and Chief Justice Hughes

    Collected together, James F. Simon’s books share the bitter struggles and compromises that have characterized the relationship between the presidents and the Supreme Court Chief Justices across US history.The bitter and protracted struggle between President Thomas Jefferson and Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall; the frustration and grudging admiration between FDR and Chief Justice Hughes; ... Leer más

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  • FDR and Chief Justice Hughes

    The President, the Supreme Court, and the Epic Battle Over the New Deal

    By the author of acclaimed books on the bitter clashes between Jefferson and Chief Justice Marshall on the shaping of the nation’s constitutional future, and between Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney over slavery, secession, and the presidential war powers. Roosevelt and Chief Justice Hughes's fight over the New Deal was the most critical struggle between an American president and a chief justice in ... Leer más

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  • The Center Holds

    The Power Struggle Inside the Rehnquist Court

    The Center Holds provides an intimate look at who the Supreme Court justices are, how they have made critical decisions, and why, ultimately, the Rehnquist Revolution failed.Focusing on four key areas of civil rights and liberties—racial discrimination, abortion, criminal law, and First Amendment freedoms—The Center Holds provides an in-depth look at the Supreme Court documents that illustrate the ... Leer más

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  • Audiolibro

    Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney

    Slavery, Seccession and the President's War Powers

    Narrado por Richard Allen ...

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    11 hora 26 minutos

    The clashes between President Abraham Lincoln and Chief Justice Roger B. Taney over slavery, secession, and Lincoln's constitutional war powers went to the heart of Lincoln's presidency.Lincoln and Taney's bitter disagreements began with Taney's Dred Scott opinion in 1857, when the Chief Justice declared that the Constitution did not grant the black man any rights that the white man was bound to ... Leer más

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    Eisenhower vs. Warren

    The Battle for Civil Rights and Liberties

    Narrado por Jonathan Yen ...

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    15 hora 55 minutos

    The bitter feud between President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Chief Justice Earl Warren framed the tumultuous future of the modern civil rights movement. Eisenhower was a gradualist who wanted to coax white Americans in the South into eventually accepting integration, while Warren, author of the Supreme Court's historic unanimous opinion in Brown v. Board of Education, demanded immediate action to ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

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  • The Strategists

    Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler--How War Made Them and How They Made War

    Churchill. Hitler. Stalin. Mussolini. Roosevelt. Five of the most impactful leaders of WW2, each with their own individualistic and idiosyncratic approach to warfare. But if we want to understand their military strategy, we must first understand the strategist.In The Strategists, Professor Phillips Payson O'Brien shows how the views these five leaders forged in WW1 are crucial to understanding how ... Leer más

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  • The Incorruptibles

    A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld

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    This harrowing tale of early twentieth century New York reveals the true stories of an immigrant underworld, a secret vice squad, and the rise of organized crime.In the early 1900s, prior to World War I, New York City was a vortex of vice and corruption. On the Lower East Side, then the most crowded ghetto on earth, Eastern European Jews formed a dense web of crime syndicates. Gangs of horse ... Leer más

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