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Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion
Seth Stern
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Description for Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion
Paperback. First paperback edition of the celebrated insider study of William Brennan (1906-1997), widely considered the Supreme Court's most influential twentieth-century justice, as well as its greatest liberal and preeminent strategist. The Washington Post called this "Perhaps the best judicial biography ever written." Num Pages: 688 pages, black & white halftones, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGA; LAT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 41. Weight in Grams: 953.
In this sweeping and revealing insider study, Seth Stern and Stephen Wermiel shine a bright light on the life, career, and thought of William Brennan (1906–1997), widely considered the Supreme Court’s most influential twentieth-century justice, as well as its greatest liberal and preeminent strategist.
Stern and Wermiel make available for the first time a striking new view of Brennan based on what Jeffrey Toobin has called “a coveted set of documents”—Justice Brennan’s very personal case histories of the major battles that confronted the Supreme Court during the past half century. Roe v. Wade, affirmative action, the death penalty, obscenity ... Read more
In this sweeping and revealing insider study, Seth Stern and Stephen Wermiel shine a bright light on the life, career, and thought of William Brennan (1906–1997), widely considered the Supreme Court’s most influential twentieth-century justice, as well as its greatest liberal and preeminent strategist.
Stern and Wermiel make available for the first time a striking new view of Brennan based on what Jeffrey Toobin has called “a coveted set of documents”—Justice Brennan’s very personal case histories of the major battles that confronted the Supreme Court during the past half century. Roe v. Wade, affirmative action, the death penalty, obscenity ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Condition
New
Number of Pages
688
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700619122
SKU
V9780700619122
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About Seth Stern
Seth Stern, a graduate of Harvard Law School, USA is an assistant managing editor at Bloomberg BNA and former reporter for Bloomberg News, Congressional Quarterly, and The Christian Science Monitor. Tephen Wermiel teaches constitutional law and a seminar on the Supreme Court at American University’s Washington College of Law. For many years he covered the Supreme Court for ... Read more
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