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Examining the life of an early advocate of the legal rights of Black Americans In this brisk, engaging exploration of 19th-century radical reformer and abolitionist Wendell Phillips, Peter Charles Hoffer makes the case that Phillips deserves credit as the nation's first public interest lawyer, someone who led the antebellum crusade against slavery and championed First Amendment rights and equality for all Americans, including Black people and ...

A history of the most famous, and infamous, footnotes in leading US Supreme Court cases"--

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A history of early America that is continental in scope, inclusive in content, and intriguing in thematic argument, this course book describes the building of the nation and the daily lives of its people up to 1776. The author's main effort in revising the book for its third edition was to expand the geographical scope of the book"--

Revolution and Regeneration is a book about the aging of the "young men of 1776, " the men who came to adulthood with the American Revolution, found their identity merged with the new republic they had created, and grew old as the nation matured. As they identified themselves with their nation's past, so they used that past to judge their own lives and what they had accomplished, or failed to accomplish. Revolution and Regeneration is a marria...

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The Federal Courts is a history of the federal courts system, its personnel, case law, and its relations with the other branches of the federal government and with state government, from the drafting of the constitution to the modern era.

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You can't outrun it, but you can outsmart it

It makes for essential reading.

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Chronicles an institution that dramatically evolved from six men meeting in borrowed quarters to the most closely watched tribunal in the world. Combining doctrine and judicial biography with case law, the authors demonstrate how the justices have shaped the law and how the law that the Court makes has shaped America, with an emphasis on how the Court responded - or failed to respond - to the plight of the underdog.

Chronicles an institution that dramatically evolved from six men meeting in borrowed quarters to the most closely watched tribunal in the world. Combining doctrine and judicial biography with case law, the authors demonstrate how the justices have shaped the law and how the law that the Court makes has shaped America, with an emphasis on how the Court responded - or failed to respond - to the plight of the underdog.

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