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Robert H. Jackson : a life in judgement / G. Edward White.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- White, G. Edward, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jackson, Robert H., 1892-1954.
- Jackson, Robert H.
- United States. Supreme Court--Biography.
- United States.
- Judges--United States--Biography.
- Judges.
- Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949.
- Genre:
- Biographies
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (501 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- Discover the meteoric rise of one of the most extraordinary and singular figures in American jurisprudence, Robert H. Jackson, from self-trained lawyer to influential Supreme Court Justice and chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials, in this compelling new biography.
- Contents:
- Launching Himself
- Family Matters
- Going to Washington
- Solicitor General and Attorney General
- The Supreme Court, 1941-1944
- The Supreme Court, 1945
- Nuremberg : Preparation
- Nuremberg : The Trial
- The Supreme Court, 1946-1952 : First Amendment Cases
- The Supreme Court, 1946-1952 : Foreign Relations Cases
- The Supreme Court, 1953 and 1954
- The Writer
- Summing Up.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 8, 2025).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-777846-1
- 0-19-777845-3
- 0-19-777844-5
- OCLC:
- 1505726622
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