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Scalia : a court of one / Bruce Allen Murphy.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating KF8745.S33 M87 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Murphy, Bruce Allen., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scalia, Antonin, 1936-2016.
- Scalia, Antonin.
- United States. Supreme Court--Biography.
- United States.
- Judges--United States--Biography.
- Judges.
- Constitutional law--United States.
- Constitutional law.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 644 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2014.
- Summary:
- A deeply researched portrait of the controversial Supreme Court justice covers his career achievements, his appointment in 1986, and his resolve to support agendas from an ethical, rather than political, perspective.
- Contents:
- Scalia in winter
- Pride of the Scalias
- The chosen few
- The Harvard Hit Parade of the 1950s
- Building a résumé
- The President's legal adviser
- Wildflowers among the weeds
- It isn't easy to be right
- Terminology is destiny
- A court of one
- Faint-hearted originalist
- Losing the middle
- The evil Nino
- Master of the barbed opinion
- War of the words
- Bush v. Gore
- Scalia vs. the Pope
- Quack, quack
- The charm offensive
- The dead constitution tour
- Opus SCOTUS
- The rock star of One First Street
- King of the originalists
- The methodology of originalism
- Kennedy's court
- Roberts' rules of order
- Reading law
- Grumpy old Justice.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 503-596) and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Weiner fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780743296496 ;
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