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Scorpions : the battles and triumphs of FDR's great Supreme Court justices / Noah Feldman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Feldman, Noah, 1970-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Judges--United States--Biography.
- Judges.
- United States.
- Frankfurter, Felix, 1882-1965.
- Frankfurter, Felix.
- Black, Hugo LaFayette, 1886-1971.
- Black, Hugo LaFayette.
- Jackson, Robert H., 1892-1954.
- Jackson, Robert H.
- Douglas, William O. (William Orville), 1898-1980.
- Douglas, William O.
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
- Roosevelt, Franklin D.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 513 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Twelve, [2010]
- Summary:
- ""Scorpions" tells the story of four great justices: their relationship with Roosevelt, with each other, and with the turbulent world of the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War. It also serves as a history of the modern Constitution itself, exploring the constitutional battles of the Roosevelt era (1940s and 1950s) and their contemporary relevance."-- Unedited summary from book.
- Contents:
- In the club
- Anarchy
- Disease and the man
- Upstate
- Southern pride
- Out of the west
- Collapse
- Security and securities
- The subpoena
- Art and taxes
- Court packing
- Switch in time
- Ambition
- The skeleton
- Original intent
- Anschluss
- The sheriff
- The pledge
- Of gurus and vice presidents
- Destroyers and bases
- The sword
- And the war came
- The saboteurs
- Faith
- Internment
- A disaster
- Succession
- The death of fathers
- Justice at Nuremberg
- The final solution
- Things fall apart
- Originalism
- Crisis and rebirth
- The constitution abroad
- The Communist councilman
- The battle of Foley Square
- Clear and present danger
- Seizure
- The zone of twilight
- Segregation
- The Brown puzzle
- Deliberate speed
- The individualists
- Ex Machina
- Last act
- Hollow men
- Kaddish
- The pine box
- The wilderness : and a triumph.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [485]-497) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780446580571
- 0446580570
- OCLC:
- 528665984
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