The Truman Court : Law and the Limits of Loyalty / Rawn James.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

James, Rawn, Jr., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political questions and judicial power--United States--History.

Political questions and judicial power.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Columbia, Missouri : University of Missouri Press, [2021]

Summary:

"The Truman Court: Law and the Limits of Loyalty argues that the years between FDR's death in 1945 and Chief Justice Earl Warren's confirmation in 1953-the dawn of the Cold War-were, contrary to widespread belief, important years in Supreme Court history. Never before or since has a president so quickly and completely changed the ideological and temperamental composition of the Court. With remarkable swiftness and certainty, Truman constructed a Court on which he relied to lend constitutional credence to his political agenda"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

"We must have steel"

Justice Harold Burton

Attorney General Tom Clark

The Court Truman inherited and a justice abroad

"The very nearly indispensable man"

Death of a Chief Justice

"The general utility man of government"

Open warriors and assassins

"A man to trust"

Meatless on-strike mid-term elections

Labor's troubled waters

The Chief takes charge

A civil service

Truman at the Lincoln Memorial

Shelley v. Kraemer : the judicial revolution begins

Justice Douglas and the 1948 presidential election

The Vinson mission

Justice Tom Clark

Justice Sherman Minton.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

0-8262-7456-0

OCLC:

1221018028