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  • The Supreme Court Footnote

    A Surprising History

    de Peter Charles Hoffer ...
    Finalist, 2025 PROSE Awards: Legal Studies and CriminologyA history of the humble footnote and its impact on the highest court in the landIn May 2022, a seismic legal event occurred as the draft majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health was leaked. The majority aimed to eliminate constitutional protection for abortion. Amidst the fervor, an unnoticed detail emerged: over 140 footnotes ... Leer más

    Antes $26.99 USD Ahora $19.99 USD

  • Three Speeches that Saved the Union

    Clay, Calhoun, Webster, and the Crisis of 1850

    de Peter Charles Hoffer ...
    How three skilled orators navigated a polarized political landscapeFor the generation of politicians who inherited the Republic and the Union, the opening months of 1850 were a desperate time filled with increasing animosity between free and slave state leaders over issues of the expansion of slavery. Following the end of the Mexican-American War and the subsequent expansion of American territory ... Leer más

    $21.89 USD

  • The Brave New World

    A History of Early America

    de Peter Charles Hoffer ...
    The distinguished historian "does a remarkable job" with this lively and comprehensive textbook—now in a new, expanded edition (Daniel P. Kotzin, Teaching History).The Brave New World covers the span of early American history, from 30,000 years before Europeans ever landed on North American shores to creation of the new nation. With its exploration of the places and peoples of early America, this ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Reading Law Forward

    The Making of a Democratic Jurisprudence from John Marshall to Stephen G. Breyer

    de Peter Charles Hoffer ...
    In the current legal climate where “everyone is an originalist,” conventional wisdom suggests that judges merely find law, rather than make it. Orthodox common-law jurisprudence makes fidelity to the past the central goal and criterion. By contrast, the alternative approach, “reading the law forward”—what some call judicial pragmatism or consequentialism—is viewed as heretical. Rather than mount a ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

  • Daniel Webster and the Unfinished Constitution

    de Peter Charles Hoffer ...
    Series series American Political Thought
    Daniel Webster and the Unfinished Constitution reveals Webster as the foremost constitutional lawyer of his day. Peter Charles Hoffer builds a persuasive case that Webster was more than a skilled practitioner who rose rapidly from his hardscrabble New Hampshire origins. Hoffer thoroughly documents the ways in which Webster was an innovative jurist. While Chief Justice John Marshall gets credit for ... Leer más

    Antes $39.59 USD Ahora $24.99 USD

  • The Treason Trials of Aaron Burr

    de Peter Charles Hoffer ...
    Series series Landmark Law Cases and American Society
    Langum Prize, Honorable MentionAaron Burr was an enigma even in his own day. Founding father and vice president, he engaged in a duel with Alexander Hamilton resulting in a murder indictment that effectively ended his legal career. And when he turned his attention to entrepreneurial activities on the frontier he was suspected of empire building—and worse.Burr was finally arrested as a threat to ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Litigation Nation

    A Cultural History of Lawsuits in America

    de Peter Charles Hoffer ...
    Series series
    Americans have long been identified as a people of law and lawyers with an addiction to lawsuits. In Litigation Nation, Peter Charles Hoffer, one of America’s most preeminent legal historians, charts the history of civil litigation from the seventeenth century to the present, using key cases pursued by ordinary people to illustrate how the civil courts have been a battlefront to contest the ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • The Great New York Conspiracy of 1741

    Slavery, Crime, and Colonial Law

    de Peter Charles Hoffer ...
    Series series Landmark Law Cases and American Society
    Three and a half decades before the city of New York witnessed the first great battle waged by the new United States of America for its independence, rumors of a massive conspiracy among the city’s slaves spread panic throughout the colony. On the testimony of frightened bondsmen and a handful of whites, over seventy slaves were convicted and a third of these were executed.The suspected conspiracy ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Law and People in Colonial America

    de Peter Charles Hoffer ...
    An essential, rigorous, and lively introduction to the beginnings of American law.How did American colonists transform British law into their own? What were the colonies' first legal institutions, and who served in them? And why did the early Americans develop a passion for litigation that continues to this day?In Law and People in Colonial America, Peter Charles Hoffer tells the story of early ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • The Historians Paradox

    de Peter Charles Hoffer ...
    How do we know what happened in the past? We cannot go back, and no amount of historical data can enable us to understand with absolute certainty what life was like “then.” It is easy to demolish the very idea of historical knowing, but it is impossible to demolish the importance of historical knowing. In an age of cable television pundits and anonymous bloggers dueling over history, the value of ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • The Clamor of Lawyers

    The American Revolution and Crisis in the Legal Profession

    de Peter Charles Hoffer, William James Hull Hoffer ...
    The Clamor of Lawyers explores a series of extended public pronouncements that British North American colonial lawyers crafted between 1761 and 1776. Most, though not all, were composed outside of the courtroom and detached from on-going litigation. While they have been studied as political theory, these writings and speeches are rarely viewed as the work of active lawyers, despite the fact that ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • A Nation of Laws

    America's Imperfect Pursuit of Justice

    de Peter Charles Hoffer ...
    America’s founders extolled a nation of laws, for they knew that only a fairly enforced legal system could protect liberty and property against corruption and tyranny. Nearly two and a half centuries later, that system remains the ultimate safeguard for us all. With concise but penetrating and provocative insights, the eminent Peter Charles Hoffer recaptures the spirit of this grand enterprise ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD