Format:
XIII, 258 Seiten
ISBN:
9781493037476
Content:
Marshall's early years -- Marshall becomes a revolutionary and a sense of time and distance -- Marshall moves up the ladder in Virginia and the world shakes as America comes to be -- Marshall on the national and international stage and a small cadre make a large nation -- Marshall was almost president, so who else came close? -- The necessity of the American myth -- From XYZ to Marbury -- The worst Supreme Court Decisions, the worst justices, and the best dissent -- Marshall's landmark decisions and when did the founding of America end? -- Transitional courts and how clerks have changed the court -- Modest proposals -- Marshall and Burr, his retreats to Richmond, and his legacy -- Why we study history, and how the study of it has deeply changed.
Content:
"A biographical history of Chief Justice John Marshall, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
9781493037483
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Strauss, Robert John Marshall Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, An imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2021]
Language:
English
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