Peter H. Irons, Author . Viking $29.95 (376p) ISBN 978-0-670-88918-1
Brown
v. Board of Education, the 1954 Supreme Court decision that mandated the desegregation of U.S. schools, is popularly seen as a hallmark of American justice. But Irons, author of May It Please the Court: Courts, Kids, and the Constitution
and...
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Peter H. Irons, Author . Metropolitan $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7593-9
At times, the latest addition to Holt's American Empire Project reads like a left-wing version of William Rehnquist's All The Laws but One
(1998). Irons, a Supreme Court historian, picks up on many of the same cases that the Chief Justice...
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Peter H. Irons, Author Alfred A. Knopf $27.5 (380p) ISBN 978-0-679-42436-9
Irons (The Courage of Their Convictions) examines 100 Supreme Court cases from 1972 to 1990, exploring the rival constitutional visions of the two staunchest opponents, liberal justice William Brennan and conservative William Rehnquist, who became...
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Peter H. Irons, Author, Howard Zinn, Preface by Viking Books $32.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-670-87006-6
Presenting a sophisticated narrative history of the Supreme Court, Irons (The Courage of Their Convictions, etc.) illustrates the beguiling legacy left by the Constitution's framers, who conjured up the high Court without providing an instruction...
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