Peter H. Irons

An updated study of the Supreme Court from 1787 to the present day profiles every justice from John Jay to Samuel Alito, Jr., and examines the cases that have transformed American history and the court's controversial rulings on such issues as racial segregation, abortion, gay rights, and free speech. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

The Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions Have Shaped Our Constitution

A People's History of the Supreme Court

Cites sixteen landmark civil liberties cases and the individuals who challenged laws that they felt impinged upon their personal freedom and who took their battles to the nation's highest court of law.

Sixteen Americans who Fought Their Way to the Supreme Court

The Courage of Their Convictions

This casebook--containing longer excerpts than those found in most other books-- includes cases from important Supreme Court opinions and material that places these cases and the issues they raise in a broad political, historical, and social context. The volume presents Supreme Court challenges and land mark decisions involving wartime protest and hysteria; the Great Depression; and conflicts over issues such as abortion. A focus on the "characters" who make up the stories of constitutional law--such as Dred Scott, Homer Plessy, Lillian Gobitis, Gordon Hirabayashi, Mary Beth Tinker, and Michael Hardwick--adds human faces and voices to the Supreme Court opinions, and introduces the fascinating players--with fundamental divisions of interest and values--who have had roles in making legal history. For individuals interested in constitutional law.

Civil Rights and Liberties in Context

Cases and Controversies

An award-winning legal historian offers a powerful examination of the long, ongoing struggle for school integration, claiming that today many schools are even more segregated than they were in 1954 when the "Brown" decision was made.

The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision

Jim Crow's Children

"Sixteen Americans who fought their way to the Supreme Court"--Front cover.

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Stephanie Guitton

The bestselling, unprecedented live recordings and transcripts of twenty-three landmark Supreme Court cases.

May It Please the Court

The Most Significant Oral Arguments Made Before the Supreme Court Since 1955. Transcripts of 23 live recordings of landmark cases as argued before the Supreme Court

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