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American original : the life and constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia / Joan Biskupic.
LIBRA KF8745.S33 B57 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Biskupic, Joan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scalia, Antonin, 1936-2016.
- Scalia, Antonin.
- United States. Supreme Court.
- Judges--United States--Biography.
- Judges.
- United States.
- United States. Supreme Court--Biography.
- Constitutional law--United States.
- Constitutional law.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 434 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus And Giroux, 2009.
- Summary:
- A profile of the conservative Supreme Court justice offers insight into his absolute belief system and considerable body of work, evaluating Scalia as an "apex of power" whose opinions may have far-reaching consequences in the social counterrevolution.
- Contents:
- A place in the American story
- In the turbulence of Watergate
- Witness for the executive
- Meeting of the minds
- Relentless in dissent
- "I have no agenda."
- "Is anybody listening?"
- Dilemmas of race
- Passions of his mind
- "A country I do not recognize"
- Bush v. Gore : not over it
- "Quack, quack"
- The center chair
- Showman of the bench
- Power in a time of terrorism
- "You get one shot".
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [409]-412) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780374202897
- 0374202893
- OCLC:
- 317928633
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