FDR and Chief Justice Hughes: The President, the Supreme Court, and the Epic Battle Over the New Deal

by James F. Simon

Book Overview

By the author of acclaimed books on the bitter clashes between Jefferson and Chief Justice Marshall on the shaping of the nation's constitutional future, and between Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney over slavery, secession, and the presidential war powers. Roosevelt and Chief Justice Hughes's fight over the New Deal was the most critical struggle between an American president and a chief justice in the twentieth century. The confrontation threatened...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416573283
• ISBN13: 9781416573289
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.4"