Secret lives of the Supreme Court : what your teachers never told you about America's legendary justices
Title:
Secret lives of the Supreme Court : what your teachers never told you about America's legendary justices
Author:
Schnakenberg, Robert.
ISBN:
9781594743085
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Philadelphia : Quirk Books, c2009.
Physical Description:
288 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Contents:
Introduction -- John Jay (1789-1795) -- John Marshall (1801-1835) -- The judge who was kicked off the bench and other noteworthy eighteenth-century justices -- Roger Brooke Taney (1836-1854) -- Salmon P. Chase (1864-1873) -- The 32-year-old Supreme Court judge and other note worthy nineteenth-century justices -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1902-1932) -- Charles Evans Hughes (1910-1916; 1930-1941) -- James Clark McReynolds (1914-1939) -- Louis Brandeis (1916-1939) -- William Howard Taft (1921-1930) -- Benjamin N. Cardozo (1932-1938) -- Hugo Black (1937-1971) -- Near misses, rejects, and also-rans: four men (and one woman) who could have been Supreme Court justices -- Felix Frankfurter (1939-1962) -- William O. Douglas (1939-1975) -- Frank Murphy (1940-1949) -- Robert H. Jackson (1941-1954) -- Earl Warren (1953-1969) -- John Marshall Harlan II (1955-1971) -- Harry Truman's "Biggest Mistake" and other twentieth-century justices -- William J. Brennan Jr. (1956-1990) -- Byron White (1962-1993) -- Abe Fortas (1965-1969) -- Thurgood Marshall (1967-1991) -- Warren Burger (1969-1986) -- Harry Blackmun (1970-1994) -- Lewis Powell (1972-1987) -- William Rehnquist (1972-2005) -- Strange justice: eight of the most unusual Supreme Court cases -- John Paul Stevens (1975-) -- Sandra Day O'Connor (1981-2006) -- Antonin Scalia (1986-) -- Anthony Kennedy (1988-) -- David Souter (1990-) -- Clarence Thomas (1991-) -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1993-) -- Stephen Breyer (1994-) -- John Roberts (2005-) -- Samual Alito (2006-).
Abstract:
Presents little-known facts and trivia about the United States Justices of the Supreme Court, from John Jay to Samuel Alito, including information on personal lives, character traits, and unusual cases.
Local Note:
Gift - John D. Fassett.