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My grandfather's son
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Clarence Thomas |
The Supreme Court justice recounts his life story, from his impoverished childhood in Jim Crow-era Georgia and his struggles to acquire an education, to his publicly contested confirmation to the nat… |
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Sisters in Law
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Linda R. Hirshman |
An account of the intertwined lives of the first two women to be appointed to the Supreme Court examines their respective religious and political beliefs while sharing insights into how they have inf… |
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The American judicial tradition
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G. Edward White |
This book is a series of portraits of the most famous appellate judges in American history. White traces the development of the American judicial tradition through biographical sketches of the career… |
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The Supreme Court
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Jeffrey Rosen |
The book traces the history of the US Supreme Court by illuminating the antagonistic positions of key players (mostly justices) on the important issues of the time. It thereby focuses not on the leg… |
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John Marshall and the heroic age of the Supreme Court
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R. Kent Newmyer |
"John Marshall (1755-1835) was arguably the most important judicial figure in American history. As the fourth chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving during the formative years of t… |
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