Research Catalog

Title

Scorpions : the battles and triumphs of FDR's great Supreme Court justices / Noah Feldman.

Author

Feldman, Noah, 1970-

Publication

New York : Twelve, 2010.

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Details

Description

xii, 513 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Scorpions" tells the story of four great justices: their relationship with Roosevelt, with each other, and with the turbulent world of the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War. It also serves as a history of the modern Constitution itself, exploring the constitutional battles of the Roosevelt era (1940s and 1950s) and their contemporary relevance.

Subject

• Frankfurter, Felix, 1882-1965
• Black, Hugo LaFayette, 1886-1971
• Jackson, Robert H., 1892-1954
• Douglas, William O. 1898-1980
• Roosevelt, Franklin D. 1882-1945
• Judges > United States > Biography

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [437]-497) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

In the club -- Anarchy -- Disease and the man -- Upstate -- Southern pride -- Out of the west -- Collapse -- Security and securities -- The subpoena -- Art and taxes -- Court packing -- Switch in time -- Ambition -- The skeleton -- Original intent -- Anschluss -- The sheriff --The pledge -- Of gurus and vice presidents -- Destroyers and bases -- The sword -- And the war came -- The saboteurs -- Faith -- Internment -- A disaster -- Succession -- The death of fathers -- Justice at Nuremberg -- The final solution -- Things fall apart -- Originalism -- Crisis and rebirth -- The constitution abroad -- The Communist councilman -- The battle of Foley Square -- Clear and present danger -- Seizure -- The zone of twilight -- Segregation -- The Brown puzzle -- Deliberate speed -- The individualists -- Ex Machina -- Last act -- Hollow men -- Kaddish -- The pine box -- The wilderness : and a triumph.

ISBN

• 9780446580571
• 0446580570

LCCN

^^2010007788

OCLC

• 528665984
• SCSB-10254603

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library