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The Personalities and Rivalries That Defined America
Holt Paperbacks
January 2008
On Sale: December 26, 2007
288 pages
ISBN: 0805086854
EAN: 9780805086850
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Non-Fiction History
“Superbly well written . . . a wonderfully informative
guide to the Supreme Court both past and present.”—David J.
Garrow, American History Jeffrey Rosen recounts the history of the Supreme Court
through the personal and philosophical rivalries that have
transformed the law—and by extension, our lives. With
studies of four crucial conflicts—Chief Justice John
Marshall and President Thomas Jefferson; post–Civil War
justices John Marshall Harlan and Oliver Wendell Holmes;
liberal icons Hugo Black and William O. Douglas; and
conservative stalwarts William H. Rehnquist and Antonin
Scalia—Rosen brings vividly to life the perennial rivalry
between those justices guided by strong ideology and those
who cared more about the court as an institution, forging
coalitions and adjusting to new realities. He ends with a
revealing conversation with Chief Justice John Roberts, who
is attempting to change the court in unexpected ways. The
stakes, he shows, are nothing less than the future of
American jurisprudence.
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