Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court
8 best books like Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court (Jeff Shesol): My Name Is Asher Lev, A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812, The Second Mountain, Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief, The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court, Presidents of War: The Epic Story, from 1807 to Modern Times, Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made, Devil's Dream
| Author | Chaim Potok |
| ISBN | 1400031044 |
Asher Lev is a Ladover Hasid who keeps kosher, prays three times a day and believes in the Ribbono Shel Olom, the Master of the Universe. Asher Lev is an artist who is compulsively driven to render the world he sees and feels even when it leads him to blasphemy. In this stirring and often visionary novel,...
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
| Author | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich |
| ISBN | 0679733760 |
I read this book 15 years ago shortly after it won the Pulitzer, and it was amazing then, and I was equally impressed this time. In fact I was surprised as I read how much of it I could remember reading even that many years ago, so it must have made a deep impression.
I'm just in awe if LTU, the depth and...
| Author | David Brooks |
| ISBN | 0812993268 |
In The Second Mountain, David Brooks explores the four commitments that define a life of meaning and purpose: to a spouse and family, to a vocation, to a philosophy or faith, and to a community. Our personal fulfillment depends on how well we choose and execute these commitments. In The Second Mountain,...
Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
| Author | James M. McPherson |
| ISBN | 1594201919 |
I thought this was a good companion history to Goodwin's Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. Whereas that one delves into Lincoln's relationship with his fractious cabinet, McPherson's is a chronological history of Lincoln's interactions with his generals. After reading this,...
| 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,...
Presidents of War: The Epic Story, from 1807 to Modern Times
| Author | Michael R. Beschloss |
| ISBN | 0307409600 |
From a preeminent presidential historian comes a groundbreaking and often surprising narrative of America’s wartime chief executives
It sometimes seems, in retrospect, as if America has been almost continuously at war. Ten years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh,...
| Author | Jim Newton |
| ISBN | 1594489289 |
In Justice for All, Jim Newton, an award-winning journalist for the Los Angeles Times, brings readers the first truly comprehensive consideration of Earl Warren, the politician-turned- Chief Justice who refashioned the place of the Supreme Court in American life through cases whose names have...
| Author | Madison Smartt Bell |
| ISBN | 0375424881 |
From the author of All Souls’ Rising which The Washington Post called “A serious historical novel that reads like a dream,” comes a powerful new novel about Nathan Bedford Forrest, the most reviled, celebrated, and legendary, of Civil War generals.
With the same eloquence, dramatic...
