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Vaulting Ambition - FDR's Campaign to Pack the Supreme Court (Hardcover)
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Vaulting Ambition - FDR's Campaign to Pack the Supreme Court (Hardcover)
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Nothing embodied Franklin D. Roosevelt's campaign to lastingly
embed the New Deal in the major institutions of American government
more than his effort to pack the Supreme Court. Vaulting Ambition,
the inaugural volume in the Landmark Presidential Decisions series,
presents a balanced assessment of FDR's 1937 effort to
fundamentally change the highest court in the land.Unlike most work
on the subject, Michael Nelson centers his study on the president's
series of decisions to reform the Court, rather than on the Court's
responses. At the heart of the book is an analytical narrative of
FDR's crusade to expand the Court and pack it with those
sympathetic to his cause. While keeping this story front and
center, Vaulting Ambition also presents the Court-packing effort as
part of FDR's larger campaign to shape the executive branch
bureaucracy, Congress, the Supreme Court, and the Democratic Party
all in service to enduringly entrench the New Deal into US
government and politics. Although FDR never achieved the mastery
over the entire federal government that he sought, his efforts to
expand and transform the three branches of government and the
Democratic Party were of great consequence and endured long beyond
his tenure. Nelson offers a clear understanding of how FDR's
campaign sheds essential light on today's raging controversy over
changing the Supreme Court.
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