Abe Fortas A Biography

Author : Laura Kalman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300046694
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abe Fortas written by Laura Kalman and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abe Fortas was a New Dealer, a sub-cabinet official, the founder of an eminent Washington law firm, a close adviser to Lyndon Johnson, and a Supreme Court justice. Nominated by Johnson to be Chief Justice, he was rejected by Congress and resigned from the Court early in the Nixon administration under a cloud of impending scandal. This book tells his dramatic story.

Author : Laura Kalman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300173697
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abe Fortas: a Biography written by Laura Kalman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engrossing intellectual biography... Kalman has set forth the bright and the dark sides of Abe Fortas in a well written, thoughtful biography that is a significant contribution to the literature on recent American history.

Author : United States. Supreme Court
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Memoriam, Honorable Abe Fortas written by United States. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bruce Allen Murphy
Publisher : William Morrow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fortas written by Bruce Allen Murphy and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1988 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1965, liberals rejoiced when Abe Fortas was appointed to the Supreme Court by his friend Lyndon Baines Johnson. Three years later, liberals rejoiced again when he was nominated as Chief Justice. But within days, he was forced to resign. The answers to the mystery surrounding his downfall will startle readers. 8 pages of photos.

Author : Bernard Schwartz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780814778258
Total Pages : 853 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Super Chief, Earl Warren and His Supreme Court written by Bernard Schwartz and published by . This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 853 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David G. Dalin
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
ISBN 13 : 1512600148
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court written by David G. Dalin and published by Brandeis University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court examines the lives, legal careers, and legacies of the eight Jews who have served or who currently serve as justices of the U.S. Supreme Court: Louis D. Brandeis, Benjamin Cardozo, Felix Frankfurter, Arthur Goldberg, Abe Fortas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer, and Elena Kagan. David Dalin discusses the relationship that these Jewish justices have had with the presidents who appointed them, and given the judges' Jewish background, investigates the antisemitism some of the justices encountered in their ascent within the legal profession before their appointment, as well as the role that antisemitism played in the attendant political debates and Senate confirmation battles. Other topics and themes include the changing role of Jews within the American legal profession and the views and judicial opinions of each of the justices on freedom of speech, freedom of religion, the death penalty, the right to privacy, gender equality, and the rights of criminal defendants, among other issues.

Author : George M. Marsden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199741123
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fundamentalism and American Culture written by George M. Marsden and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-02-09 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many American's today are taking note of the surprisingly strong political force that is the religious right. Controversial decisions by the government are met with hundreds of lobbyists, millions of dollars of advertising spending, and a powerful grassroots response. How has the fundamentalist movement managed to resist the pressures of the scientific community and the draw of modern popular culture to hold on to their ultra-conservative Christian views? Understanding the movement's history is key to answering this question. Fundamentalism and American Culture has long been considered a classic in religious history, and to this day remains unsurpassed. Now available in a new edition, this highly regarded analysis takes us through the full history of the origin and direction of one of America's most influential religious movements. For Marsden, fundamentalists are not just religious conservatives; they are conservatives who are willing to take a stand and to fight. In Marsden's words (borrowed by Jerry Falwell), "a fundamentalist is an evangelical who is angry about something." In the late nineteenth century American Protestantism was gradually dividing between liberals who were accepting new scientific and higher critical views that contradicted the Bible and defenders of the more traditional evangelicalism. By the 1920s a full-fledged "fundamentalist" movement had developed in protest against theological changes in the churches and changing mores in the culture. Building on networks of evangelists, Bible conferences, Bible institutes, and missions agencies, fundamentalists coalesced into a major protest movement that proved to have remarkable staying power. For this new edition, a major new chapter compares fundamentalism since the 1970s to the fundamentalism of the 1920s, looking particularly at the extraordinary growth in political emphasis and power of the more recent movement. Never has it been more important to understand the history of fundamentalism in our rapidly polarizing nation. Marsen's carefully researched and engrossing work remains the best way to do just that.

Author : Laura Kalman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199967776
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Long Reach of the Sixties written by Laura Kalman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Warren Court of the 1950s and 1960s was the most liberal in American history. Yet within a few short years, new appointments redirected the Court in a more conservative direction, a trend that continued for decades. However, even after Warren retired and the makeup of the court changed, his Court cast a shadow that extends to our own era. In The Long Reach of the Sixties, Laura Kalman focuses on the late 1960s and early 1970s, when Presidents Johnson and Nixon attempted to dominate the Court and alter its course. Using newly released--and consistently entertaining--recordings of Lyndon Johnson's and Richard Nixon's telephone conversations, she roots their efforts to mold the Court in their desire to protect their Presidencies. The fierce ideological battles--between the executive, legislative, and judicial branches--that ensued transformed the meaning of the Warren Court in American memory. Despite the fact that the Court's decisions generally reflected public opinion, the surrounding debate calcified the image of the Warren Court as activist and liberal. Abe Fortas's embarrassing fall and Nixon's campaign against liberal justices helped make the term "activist Warren Court" totemic for liberals and conservatives alike. The fear of a liberal court has changed the appointment process forever, Kalman argues. Drawing from sources in the Ford, Reagan, Bush I, and Clinton presidential libraries, as well as the justices' papers, she shows how the desire to avoid another Warren Court has politicized appointments by an order of magnitude. Among other things, presidents now almost never nominate politicians as Supreme Court justices (another response to Warren, who had been the governor of California). Sophisticated, lively, and attuned to the ironies of history, The Long Reach of the Sixties is essential reading for all students of the modern Court and U.S. political history.

Author : Anthony Lewis
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030780528X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gideon's Trumpet written by Anthony Lewis and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-09-14 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic bestseller from a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist that tells the compelling true story of one man's fight for the right to legal counsel for every defendent. A history of the landmark case of Clarence Earl Gideon's fight for the right to legal counsel. Notes, table of cases, index. The classic backlist bestseller. More than 800,000 sold since its first pub date of 1964.

Author : Abe Fortas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Concerning Dissent and Civil Disobedience written by Abe Fortas and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: