Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices
8 best books like Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices (Noah Feldman): Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787, Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974, The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court, Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution, Five Chiefs: A Supreme Court Memoir, Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788, The Oath: The Obama White House and The Supreme Court, Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants
| Author | Catherine Drinker Bowen |
| ISBN | 0316103985 |
A classic history of the Federal Convention at Philadelphia in 1787, the stormy, dramatic session that produced the most enduring of political documents: the Constitution of the United States.
From Catherine Drinker Bowen, noted American biographer and National Book Award winner, comes the...
Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974
| Author | Kevin M. Kruse |
| ISBN | 0393088669 |
Two award-winning historians explore the origins of a divided America.
If you were asked when America became polarized, your answer would likely depend on your age: you might say during Barack Obama’s presidency, or with the post-9/11 war on terror, or the culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s,...
| Author | Bob Woodward |
| ISBN | 0743274024 |
The inner working of the Supreme Court, the highest court I the land, often the court of last resort. My high expectations going into this book were mostly met, my opinion of the way this court works, were not. They dealt with busing, segregation, was the court that ruled on Roe v. Wade, the Watergate debacle,...
| Author | Jack N. Rakove |
| ISBN | 0679781218 |
From abortion to same-sex marriage, today's most urgent political debates will hinge on this two-part question: What did the United States Constitution originally mean and who now understands its meaning best? Rakove chronicles the Constitution from inception to ratification and, in doing so,...
When he resigned last June, Justice Stevens was the third longest serving Justice in American history (1975-2010)--only Justice William O. Douglas, whom Stevens succeeded, and Stephen Field have served on the Court for a longer time.
In Five Chiefs, Justice Stevens captures the inner workings...
| Author | Pauline Maier |
| ISBN | 0684868547 |
When the delegates left the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in September 1787, the new Constitution they had written was no more than a proposal. Elected conventions in at least nine of the thirteen states would have to ratify it before it could take effect. There was reason to doubt whether...
| Author | Jeffrey Toobin |
| ISBN | 0449013677 |
From the prizewinning author of The Nine, a gripping insider's account of the momentous ideological war between the John Roberts Supreme Court and the Obama administration.
From the moment John Roberts, the chief justice of the United States, blundered through the Oath of Office at Barack...
Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants
| Author | H.W. Brands |
| ISBN | 0525638008 |
From New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how, in nineteenth-century America, a new set of political giants battled to complete the unfinished work of the Founding Fathers and decide the future of our democracy
In the early 1800s, three young men strode...
