6 edition of A people"s history of the Supreme Court found in the catalog.
A people"s history of the Supreme Court
Peter H. Irons
Published
2006 by Penguin Books in New York .
Written in English
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [573]-577) and index.
Statement | Peter Irons. |
Classifications | |
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LC Classifications | KF8742 .I763 2006 |
The Physical Object | |
Pagination | xx, 588 p. ; |
Number of Pages | 588 |
ID Numbers | |
Open Library | OL17924042M |
ISBN 10 | 0143037382 |
LC Control Number | 2006044779 |
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This sweeping history of the Supreme Court will thoroughly aggravate anyone who believes, along with Robert Bork or Justice Antonin Scalia that the Constitution should be read narrowly. Irons (Political Science/Univ. of California, San Diego; May It Please the Court: The First Amendment,etc.) makes no bones A peoples history of the Supreme Court book his ideological stance.
Peter Iron's book, A People's History of the Supreme Court, was a joy to read through all the many hours I was engrossed in this immense book. He puts his ideological cards on the table in the introduction and then, if you have any spark of liberal spirit inside you, you go along for the ride as Irons takes the reader through over two hundred 5/5(5).
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A People’s History of the Supreme Court is modeled after Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, a book I have not read but have often seen in the bookshelves of such this review may be lacking.
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A book that talked about the Supreme Court from a similar bottom-up approach was appealing. Unfortunately, I think the title oversells this book.
It is a history of the Supreme Court, and, as with Zinn's book, it carries its bias openly (if not as forcefully or compellingly as Zinn).
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