HSPLS site
Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
My Account
Databases
HI Newspaper
eBooks/Audiobooks
Learning
PC Reservation
Reading Program
Basic
Advanced
Power
History
Search:
Title Browse
Author Browse
Subject Browse
Best Seller Browse
Music Title Browse
Video/DVD Title Browse
Journal/Newspaper Title Browse
Serial Title Browse
Series Browse (includes Bestseller List)
General Keyword
Title Keyword
Author Keyword
Subject Keyword
Name Keyword
Series Keyword
Score Title Browse
Talking Book Title Browse
Awards Note Browse
Bib No.
Barcode
Refine Search
> You're searching:
HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
Item Information
Holdings
Summary
More Content
More by this author
Sloan, Cliff, author.
Subjects
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
United States. Supreme Court -- Officials and employees -- History -- 20th century.
Political questions and judicial power -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Judges -- Selection and appointment -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Sloan, Cliff, author.
by title:
The Court at war : F...
MARC Display
The Court at war : FDR, his justices, and the world they made / Cliff Sloan.
by
Sloan, Cliff, author.
New York : PublicAffairs, 2023.
Subjects
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
United States. Supreme Court -- Officials and employees -- History -- 20th century.
Political questions and judicial power -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Judges -- Selection and appointment -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.
ISBN:
9781541736481 (hardback) :
1541736486 (hardback)
Description:
viii, 484 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Contents:
War Clouds -- Pearl Harbor -- War -- Taking A Stand -- Summer Session -- A Mortification Of The Flesh -- A Barefoot Lawyer -- "The Whole Situation Looks Mighty Bad" -- "A Fixed Star In Our Constitutional Constellation" -- "Just A Scrap Of Paper" -- An Odious Classification -- "I Am Unable To Believe You" -- The War At Home -- The Double -- A National Ticket -- Korematsu -- "The Ugly Abyss" -- The End Of The Roosevelt Court.
Requests:
0
Summary:
"The inside story of how one president forever altered the Supreme Court, with consequences that endure today. By the summer of 1941, in the ninth year of his presidency, Franklin Roosevelt had molded his Court. He had appointed seven of the nine justices (the most by any president except George Washington) and handpicked the chief justice. But war time the Roosevelt Court had two faces. One was bold and progressive, the other supine and abject, cowed by the charisma of the revered president. This book examines these justices--from the mercurial, Vienna-born intellectual Felix Frankfurter to the Alabama populist Hugo Black; from the western prodigy William O. Douglas, FDR's initial pick to be his running mate in 1944, to Roosevelt's former attorney general and Nuremberg prosecutor Robert Jackson. The justices' shameless capitulation and unwillingness to cross their beloved president highlight the dangers of an unseemly closeness between Supreme Court justices and their political patrons. But the FDR Court's finest moments also provided a robust defense of individual rights, rights the current Court has put in jeopardy"--Adapted from the publisher's description.
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Status
Hawaii State Library
Social Science & Philosophy
347.73035 Sl
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.