Peter H Irons

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1) The New Deal lawyers

Author

Irons, Peter H

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook

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"Winner of the J. Willard Hurst Award, Law and Society Association" Peter H. Irons is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. His books include Justice at War: The Inside Story of the Japanese American Internment (Oxford) and The Courage of Their Convictions: Sixteen Americans Who Fought Their Way to the Supreme Court (Free Press/Viking Penguin). From the perspective of young lawyers in three key New Deal agencies,...

2) A people's history of the Supreme Court: the men and women whose cases and decisions have shaped our Constitution

Author

Irons, Peter H

Pub. Date

2006

Edition

Rev. ed.

Physical Desc

xx, 588 pages ; 23 cm

Language

English

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Beginning with the debates over judicial power in the Constitutional Convention of 1787 to controversial rulings on slavery, racial segregation, free speech, school prayer, abortion, and gay rights, constitutional scholar Peter Irons offers a penetrating look at the highest court in the land. Here are revealing sketches of every justice from John Jay to Samuel Alito, as well as portraits of such legal giants as John Marshall, Oliver Wendell Holmes,...