UID:
almafu_9960947743402883
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
0-8262-7456-0
Content:
"The Truman Court: Law and the Limits of Loyalty argues that the years between FDR's death in 1945 and Chief Justice Earl Warren's confirmation in 1953-the dawn of the Cold War-were, contrary to widespread belief, important years in Supreme Court history. Never before or since has a president so quickly and completely changed the ideological and temperamental composition of the Court. With remarkable swiftness and certainty, Truman constructed a Court on which he relied to lend constitutional credence to his political agenda"--
Note:
Includes index.
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"We must have steel" -- Justice Harold Burton -- Attorney General Tom Clark -- The Court Truman inherited and a justice abroad -- "The very nearly indispensable man" -- Death of a Chief Justice -- "The general utility man of government" -- Open warriors and assassins -- "A man to trust" -- Meatless on-strike mid-term elections -- Labor's troubled waters -- The Chief takes charge -- A civil service -- Truman at the Lincoln Memorial -- Shelley v. Kraemer : the judicial revolution begins -- Justice Douglas and the 1948 presidential election -- The Vinson mission -- Justice Tom Clark -- Justice Sherman Minton.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8262-2229-3
Language:
English
Keywords:
History.
