Morton Horwitz's book offers its readers a short and easily digestible overview of the main personalities and cases associated with the Supreme Court in the 1950s and 1960s. His focus is on the liberal justices -- a small and constantly fluctuating group -- and their role in shaping a remarkable per...
This book I think is the overall winner among all the books I read for my PhD Comps, in terms of its relevance to all the fields I’m working in, and to its importance in helping me formulate my own ideas and see connections. Horwitz says in his introduction, “I seek to show that one of the crucial ...