The Oath: The Obama White House and The Supreme Court

7 best books like The Oath: The Obama White House and The Supreme Court (Jeffrey Toobin): A People's History of the United States, Obama's Wars, Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy, The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court, Five Chiefs: A Supreme Court Memoir, Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices, Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court

A People's History of the United States

Author	Howard Zinn
ISBN	0060838655

Library Journal calls Howard Zinn’s iconic A People's History of the United States “a brilliant and moving history of the American people from the point of view of those…whose plight has been largely omitted from most histories.” Packed with vivid details and telling quotations, Zinn’s...

Obama's Wars

Author

Bob Woodward

In Obama’s Wars, Bob Woodward provides the most intimate and sweeping portrait yet of the young president as commander in chief. Drawing on internal memos, classified documents, meeting notes and hundreds of hours of interviews with most of the key players, including the president, Woodward tells...

Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy

Author	Christopher L. Hayes
ISBN	0307720454

A powerful and original argument that traces the roots of our present crisis of authority to an unlikely source: the meritocracy.

Over the past decade, Americans watched in bafflement and rage as one institution after another –  from Wall Street to Congress, the Catholic Church to corporate...

The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court

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,...

Five Chiefs: A Supreme Court Memoir

Author

John Paul Stevens

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...

Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices

Author	Noah Feldman
ISBN	0446580570

A tiny, ebullient Jew who started as America's leading liberal and ended as its most famous judicial conservative. A Klansman who became an absolutist advocate of free speech and civil rights. A backcountry lawyer who started off trying cases about cows and went on to conduct the most important international...

Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court

Author	Jan Crawford Greenburg
ISBN	1594201013

Drawing on unprecedented access to the Supreme Court justices themselves and their inner circles, acclaimed ABC News legal correspondent Jan Crawford Greenburg offers an explosive newsbreaking account of one of the most momentous political watersheds in American history. From the series of Republican...