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Charles Evans Hughes and the Dawning of Modern America.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reitano, Joanne.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hughes, Charles Evans, 1862-1948.
- Hughes, Charles Evans.
- United States. Supreme Court--History--20th century.
- United States.
- United States. Supreme Court--Officials and employees--Biography.
- Statesmen--United States--Biography.
- Statesmen.
- Governors--United States--Biography.
- Governors.
- Judges--United States--Biography.
- Judges.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (449 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- La Vergne : University Press of Kansas, 2025.
- Summary:
- "In the first full-life biographical study of Charles Evan Hughes in over seventy years, Joanne Reitano provides a fresh new assessment of Hughes's distinguished career of public service during the first half of the twentieth century-including his time as Governor of New York (1906-1910), Associate Justice and presidential candidate (1910-1916), Secretary of State (1921-1925), and finally as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (1930-1941). A household name in his own time, Hughes challenged bossism and industrialism in New York politics, championed internationalism after World War I, brokered the world's first arms limitation agreement as Wilson's Secretary of State, and helped modernize the interstate commerce clause, substantive due process, and civil liberties from the Supreme Court bench. Reitano unpacks and embraces the seemingly paradoxical nature of Hughes's political and legal career and ideology, arguing that he was neither radical nor reactionary, but a structural reformer and a practical idealist throughout his career"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Becoming Hughes, 1862-1906
- Becoming Governor, 1906-1908
- Serving a Second Term, 1908-1910
- Becoming Associate Justice, 1910-1916
- Almost Becoming President, 1916-1921
- Becoming Secretary of State, 1921-1925
- The Washington Naval Conference, 1921-1922
- Empire or Umpire? 1921-1925
- Becoming Chief Justice, 1930-1941
- Packing the Court, 1933-1937
- Reorienting the Court, 1937-1941
- Conclusion, 1941-1948.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-7006-3887-3
- OCLC:
- 1528857029
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