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Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Legal profession > General
The surprising life of Chief Justice John Marshall, who turned the
Supreme Court into a bulwark against presidential and congressional
tyranny and saved American democracyIn this startling biography,
award-winning author Harlow Giles Unger reveals how Virginia-born
John Marshall emerged from the Revolutionary War's bloodiest
battlefields to become one of the nation's most important Founding
Fathers: America's greatest Chief Justice. With nine decisions that
shocked the nation, John Marshall and his court saved American
liberty by protecting individual rights and the rights of private
business against tyranny by federal, state, and local government.
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