By the summer of 1941, in the ninth year of his presidency,
Franklin Roosevelt had moulded his Court. He had appointed seven of
the nine justices-the most by any president except George
Washington-and handpicked the chief justice. But the wartime
Roosevelt Court had two faces. One was bold and progressive, the
other supine and abject, cowed by the charisma of the revered
president. The Court at War explores this pivotal period. It
provides a cast of unforgettable characters in the justices-from
the mercurial, Vienna-born intellectual Felix Frankfurter to the
Alabama populist Hugo Black; from the western prodigy William O.
Douglas, FDR's initial pick to be his running mate in 1944, to
Roosevelt's former attorney general and Nuremberg prosecutor Robert
Jackson. The justices' shameless capitulation and unwillingness to
cross their beloved president highlight the dangers of an unseemly
closeness between Supreme Court justices and their political
patrons. But the FDR Court's finest moments also provided a robust
defense of individual rights, rights the current Court has put in
jeopardy. Sloan's intimate portrait is a vivid, instructive tale
for modern times.
General
Imprint: |
PublicAffairs,U.S.
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
September 2023 |
Authors: |
Cliff Sloan
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Dimensions: |
235 x 152mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
512 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-5417-3648-1 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-5417-3648-6 |
Barcode: |
9781541736481 |
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