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Books : The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries That Defined AmericaIn association with Amazon.comby: Jeffrey Rosen  List Price: $15.00 Amazon.com's Price: $11.25 You Save: $3.75 (25%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 320 EAN: 9780805086850 ISBN: 0805086854 Label: Holt Paperbacks Manufacturer: Holt Paperbacks Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: December 26, 2007 Publisher: Holt Paperbacks Release Date: December 26, 2007 Studio: Holt Paperbacks Sales Rank: 78342 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: “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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - BATTLE OF THE TITANSPerhaps such a designation (Battle of the Titans) evokes thoughts of prize fighting: Ali vs Frazier, an unbridled Marciano, an ageless Archie Moore, the sweet science of a Sugar Ray Robinson,or an awesome powered George Foreman.The battles here are of greater significance than a battle for prizes. These legal/political discourses were for the hearts, minds and souls of a nation. John Kennedy remarked at a formal dinner in the White House that no such assemblage of talent had gathered ... Read More Rating:  - Adequate, but nothing more.I found this account of the Supreme Court far less engaging than "The Nine". Rosen's main point - that judicial temperament determines success on the court, in the sense that justices who work well with others have more influence - hardly qualifies as an earth-shattering insight. But it causes him to adopt an awkward structure for the book, sorting through history to pick pairs of judges, who are then analyzed in a series of artificial head-to-head comparison. The result seems forced, and not particularly ... Read More Rating: - A Concise History of Politics vs LawRecently there have been many good books available about the Supreme Court. For a quick, no-nonsense straight to the heart of the matter history of Supreme Court, this is the book. A history of the Supreme Court derived from its major decisions and its major dissenters. The author shows that often justices that may be on the dissenting side of Supreme Court decisions are sometimes justices that are ahead of their time. Their lonely decisions often become basics to the American way of life in a later era. ... Read More Rating: - How the Court WorksJeffrey Rosen's accessible and engaging companion book to the PBS series offers not only a fine introduction to the U.S. Supreme Court (and many of the most important cases it's decided in its history) but also a perspective from which to understand the Court as an institution. This perspective is tantamount to Rosen's thesis: that "judicial temperament" is a quality possessed by the Court's most distinguished justices, those who subordinate their ideological leanings to the deliberative and practical process ... Read More Rating: - Good History - Not Enough CatchFor a look into some of the most well known figures in the Supreme Court, this book does a fantastic job. From in-depth analysis of their personalities to little anecdotes on each Justice, the Author clearly knows his history. It's a tad short, and I think the specific cases could have been covered in greater detail. While it was informative, it didn't have that something special that had me anxious to keep reading. At times, I felt like I was reading a history book. If you're someone ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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