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The Truman court : law and the limits of loyalty /

"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 p...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: James, Rawn, Jr (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia, Missouri : University of Missouri Press, [2021]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Prologue
  • Chapter One: "We Must Have Steel."
  • Chapter Two: Justice Harold Burton
  • Chapter Three: Attorney General Tom Clark
  • Chapter Four: The Court Truman Inherited and a Justice Abroad
  • Chapter Five: "The Very Nearly Indispensable Man"
  • Chapter Six: Death of a Chief Justice
  • Chapter Seven: "The General Utility Man of Government"
  • Chapter Eight: Open Warriors and Assassins
  • Chapter Nine: "A Man to Trust"
  • Chapter Ten: Meatless On-Strike Midterm Elections
  • Chapter Eleven: Labor's Troubled Waters
  • Chapter Twelve: The Chief Takes Charge
  • Chapter Thirteen: A Civil Service
  • Chapter Fourteen: Truman at the Lincoln Memorial
  • Chapter Fifteen: Shelley v. Kraemer: The Judicial Revolution Begins
  • Chapter Sixteen: Justice Douglas and the 1948 Presidential Election
  • Chapter Seventeen: The Vinson Mission
  • Chapter Eighteen: Justice Tom Clark
  • Chapter Nineteen: Justice Sherman Minton
  • Chapter Twenty: Civil Liberties and Loyalty
  • Chapter Twenty-One: The Path to Brown: First Steps
  • Chapter Twenty-Two: The Path to Brown: Unanimous Progress
  • Chapter Twenty-Three: Caution in the Wind
  • Chapter Twenty-Four: Monongahela River Valley Hope
  • Chapter Twenty-Five: The District Court Hearing
  • Chapter Twenty-Six: The Supreme Court Hearing
  • Chapter Twenty-Seven: Conference and Resolution
  • Chapter Twenty-Eight: "Zone of Twilight"
  • Chapter Twenty-Nine: A President's Nadir
  • Chapter Thirty: The Truman Court
  • Notes
  • Index