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The campaign to impeach Justice William O. Douglas : Nixon, Vietnam, and the conservative attack on judicial independence / Joshua E. Kastenberg.
Van Pelt Library KF8745.D6 K37 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kastenberg, Joshua E., 1967- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Douglas, William O. (William Orville), 1898-1980--Impeachment.
- Douglas, William O.
- Douglas, William O. (William Orville), 1898-1980.
- Political questions and judicial power--United States.
- Political questions and judicial power.
- Impeachment.
- United States.
- United States--Politics and government--1969-1974.
- Politics and government.
- Impeachments.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 319 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, [2019]
- Contents:
- Foreword / Senator Fred Harris
- Preface and acknowledgements
- Cold War politics and the court under siege
- The rising men, the muckrakers of the judiciary, and beleaguered judges
- Douglas, extra-judicial activities, and the Vietnam conflict
- Ford's attack on Douglas begins
- The House of Representatives responds to Ford and the Cambodian invasion
- A long summer of discord : the Senate awaits the house
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780700628483
- 0700628487
- OCLC:
- 1086404195
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