Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of Fdr's Great Supreme Court Justices

by Noah Feldman

Book Overview

A tiny, ebullient Jew who started as America's leading liberal and ended as its most famous judicial conservative. A Klansman who became an absolutist advocate of free speech and civil rights. A backcountry lawyer who started off trying cases about cows and went on to conduct the most important international trial ever. A self-invented, tall-tale Westerner who narrowly missed the presidency but expanded individual freedom beyond what anyone before...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446580570
• ISBN13: 9780446580571
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Twelve
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 7.0" x 9.5"