The Supreme Court by Jeffrey Rosen

The Supreme Court by Jeffrey Rosen

"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.

JEFFREY ROSEN is a law professor at The George Washington University and the legal affairs editor of The New Republic. His first book was The Unwanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy in America. His essays and commentaries have appeared in many publications, including The New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker, and on National Public Radio. Rosen is a graduate of Harvard College, Oxford University, and Yale Law School. He lives in Washington, D.C.

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ISBN 13	9780805086850
ISBN 10	0805086854
Title	The Supreme Court
Author	Jeffrey Rosen
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	St. Martin's Griffin
Year published	2007-12-26
Number of pages	288
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