New Deal Justice

Author : Jeffrey D. Hockett
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Deal Justice written by Jeffrey D. Hockett and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1996 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work illustrates the constitutional jurisprudence of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's most notable appointees to the United States Supreme Court. Drawing upon memoirs, writings, opinions and personal papers, the text examines the social/political theories of the three justices.

Author : Edward G. Goetz
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801467543
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Deal Ruins written by Edward G. Goetz and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public housing was an integral part of the New Deal, as the federal government funded public works to generate economic activity and offer material support to families made destitute by the Great Depression, and it remained a major element of urban policy in subsequent decades. As chronicled in New Deal Ruins, however, housing policy since the 1990s has turned to the demolition of public housing in favor of subsidized units in mixed-income communities and the use of tenant-based vouchers rather than direct housing subsidies. While these policies, articulated in the HOPE VI program begun in 1992, aimed to improve the social and economic conditions of urban residents, the results have been quite different. As Edward G. Goetz shows, hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced and there has been a loss of more than 250,000 permanently affordable residential units. Goetz offers a critical analysis of the nationwide effort to dismantle public housing by focusing on the impact of policy changes in three cities: Atlanta, Chicago, and New Orleans.Goetz shows how this transformation is related to pressures of gentrification and the enduring influence of race in American cities. African Americans have been disproportionately affected by this policy shift; it is the cities in which public housing is most closely identified with minorities that have been the most aggressive in removing units. Goetz convincingly refutes myths about the supposed failure of public housing. He offers an evidence-based argument for renewed investment in public housing to accompany housing choice initiatives as a model for innovative and equitable housing policy.

Author : James F. Simon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416578897
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book FDR and Chief Justice Hughes written by James F. Simon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the author of acclaimed books on the bitter clashes between Jefferson and Chief Justice Marshall on the shaping of the nation’s constitutional future, and between Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney over slavery, secession, and the presidential war powers. Roosevelt and Chief Justice Hughes's fight over the New Deal was the most critical struggle between an American president and a chief justice in the twentieth century. The confrontation threatened the New Deal in the middle of the nation’s worst depression. The activist president bombarded the Democratic Congress with a fusillade of legislative remedies that shut down insolvent banks, regulated stocks, imposed industrial codes, rationed agricultural production, and employed a quarter million young men in the Civilian Conservation Corps. But the legislation faced constitutional challenges by a conservative bloc on the Court determined to undercut the president. Chief Justice Hughes often joined the Court’s conservatives to strike down major New Deal legislation. Frustrated, FDR proposed a Court-packing plan. His true purpose was to undermine the ability of the life-tenured Justices to thwart his popular mandate. Hughes proved more than a match for Roosevelt in the ensuing battle. In grudging admiration for Hughes, FDR said that the Chief Justice was the best politician in the country. Despite the defeat of his plan, Roosevelt never lost his confidence and, like Hughes, never ceded leadership. He outmaneuvered isolationist senators, many of whom had opposed his Court-packing plan, to expedite aid to Great Britain as the Allies hovered on the brink of defeat. He then led his country through World War II.

Author : John D. Fassett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Deal Justice written by John D. Fassett and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jeff Shesol
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393079418
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court written by Jeff Shesol and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-03-14 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A stunning work of history."—Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of No Ordinary Time and Team of Rivals Beginning in 1935, the Supreme Court's conservative majority left much of FDR's agenda in ruins. The pillars of the New Deal fell in short succession. It was not just the New Deal but democracy itself that stood on trial. In February 1937, Roosevelt struck back with an audacious plan to expand the Court to fifteen justices—and to "pack" the new seats with liberals who shared his belief in a "living" Constitution.

Author : G. Edward White
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674008311
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Constitution and the New Deal written by G. Edward White and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-15 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a powerful new narrative, G. Edward White challenges the reigning understanding of twentieth-century Supreme Court decisions, particularly in the New Deal period. He does this by rejecting such misleading characterizations as "liberal," "conservative," and "reactionary," and by reexamining several key topics in constitutional law. Through a close reading of sources and analysis of the minds and sensibilities of a wide array of justices, including Holmes, Brandeis, Sutherland, Butler, Van Devanter, and McReynolds, White rediscovers the world of early-twentieth-century constitutional law and jurisprudence. He provides a counter-story to that of the triumphalist New Dealers. The deep conflicts over constitutional ideas that took place in the first half of the twentieth century are sensitively recovered, and the morality play of good liberals vs. mossbacks is replaced. This is the only thoroughly researched and fully realized history of the constitutional thought and practice of all the Supreme Court justices during the turbulent period that made America modern.

Author : Linda C. Gugin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sherman Minton written by Linda C. Gugin and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authors Gugin and St. Clair explore the forces and events that shaped Minton's political style and judicial character. Chief among the influences on Minton were his southern Indiana roots, his childhood adversity, his attraction to populism and its foremost proponent, William Jennings Bryan, and his involvement in the partisan politics of Indiana. Out of this mixture was born a political philosophy that was neither liberal nor conservative, but pragmatic. As both New Deal senator and Cold War justice Minton acted in harmony with his long-held views of democracy. From an early age Minton longed to be in public service. The road to this goal, however, as the authors chronicle, was marked with detours and bumps. But Minton, drawing upon the strength acquired during the difficulties of his youth, was doggedly determined. His fascinating journey, therefore, stands as an inspirational testimony to will and perseverance. Minton's life, too, is testimony to the value of wit and humor. While he was deeply committed to performing his public duties as conscientiously as possible, he nevertheless was ever ready with a quip or joke to deflate a contentious situation, disarm an opponent, or just brighten up someone's day. The author's capture Minton's humor, warmth, and grace through their use of the frequent and lively correspondence Minton carried on with such friends as President Truman, Hugo L. Black, William O. Douglas, Fred M. Vinson, Felix Frankfurter, Earl Warren, Carl A. Hatch, and Lewis B. Schwellenbach.

Author : Stephen K. Shaw
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 9780765610324
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Transformation of the Supreme Court written by Stephen K. Shaw and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 2004 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines FDR's influence on the Supreme Court, and the Court's growing influence on American life. Subjects include the court-packing fight of 1937, the impact of the New Deal on the Court, key FDR appointments, and the Roosevelt Court's enduring legacy.

Author : Michael Hiltzik
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439154481
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Deal written by Michael Hiltzik and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From first to last the New Deal was a work in progress, a patchwork of often contradictory ideas.

Author : Elizabeth Borgwardt
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674281926
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A New Deal for the World written by Elizabeth Borgwardt and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-30 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a work of sweeping scope and luminous detail, Elizabeth Borgwardt describes how a cadre of World War II American planners inaugurated the ideas and institutions that underlie our modern international human rights regime. Borgwardt finds the key in the 1941 Atlantic Charter and its Anglo-American vision of “war and peace aims.” In attempting to globalize what U.S. planners heralded as domestic New Deal ideas about security, the ideology of the Atlantic Charter—buttressed by FDR’s “Four Freedoms” and the legacies of World War I—redefined human rights and America’s vision for the world. Three sets of international negotiations brought the Atlantic Charter blueprint to life—Bretton Woods, the United Nations, and the Nuremberg trials. These new institutions set up mechanisms to stabilize the international economy, promote collective security, and implement new thinking about international justice. The design of these institutions served as a concrete articulation of U.S. national interests, even as they emphasized the importance of working with allies to achieve common goals. The American architects of these charters were attempting to redefine the idea of security in the international sphere. To varying degrees, these institutions and the debates surrounding them set the foundations for the world we know today. By analyzing the interaction of ideas, individuals, and institutions that transformed American foreign policy—and Americans’ view of themselves—Borgwardt illuminates the broader history of modern human rights, trade and the global economy, collective security, and international law. This book captures a lost vision of the American role in the world.