The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics

by Don E. Fehrenbacher

Book Overview

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1979, The Dred Scott Case is a masterful examination of the most famous example of judicial failure--the case referred to as "the most frequently overturned decision in history." On March 6, 1857, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney delivered the Supreme Court's decision against Dred Scott, a slave who maintained he had been emancipated as a result of having lived with his master in the free state of Illinois and in federal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195145887
• ISBN13: 9780195145885
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 768 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"