SCORPIONS
The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices
Author: Feldman, Noah

Review Date: August 1, 2010
Publisher:Twelve
Pages: 520
Price ( Hardback ): $30.00
Publication Date: November 18, 2010
ISBN ( Hardback ): 978-0-446-58057-1
Category: Nonfiction
Classification: History

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New York Times Magazine contributor Feldman (Law/Harvard Univ.; (The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, 2008, etc.) compares the careers and the constitutional visions of four of the most important Supreme Court justices ever.

Of Franklin Roosevelt’s nine Supreme ...

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