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Justice of shattered dreams : Samuel Freeman Miller and the Supreme Court during the Civil War era / Michael A. Ross.
Van Pelt Library KF8745.M5 R67 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ross, Michael A. (Michael Anthony)
- Series:
- Conflicting worlds
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Miller, Samuel Freeman, 1816-1890.
- Miller, Samuel Freeman.
- United States. Supreme Court.
- Judges--United States--Biography.
- Judges.
- Law.
- History.
- United States.
- United States. Supreme Court--Biography.
- Law--United States--History--19th century.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- A U.S. Supreme Court Justice's journey through war, Reconstruction, and the lost promises of nineteenth-century capitalism.
- Contents:
- "The Athens of the Kentucky highlands"
- Keokuk rising
- The panic of 1857
- Lincoln appoints a justice
- The consequences attendant upon treason
- Men incapable of forgiving or learning
- A new class that produces nothing
- The slaughter-house cases
- Shattered dreams
- Danger from above and below.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-304) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0807128686
- 0807129240
- OCLC:
- 51607383
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