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Newman, Roger K.

 
9780679431800: Hugo Black: A Biography
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0679431802 ISBN 13: 9780679431800
Verlag: Pantheon Books, 1994

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A biography of the controversial and influential Supreme Court justice traces Black's career from his Ku Klux Klan membership and early political aspirations to his nomination to the Supreme Court and championship of individual rights and welfare. 15,000 first printing. Tour.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Roger K. Newman is Research Scholar at New York University School of Law. Born in Brooklyn, he was educated at Hunter College, the University of Virginia, New York University, and Cardozo Law School. He is co-author of Banned Films, a history of movie censorship, which was nominated for several awards. He has written for both popular and professional publications, taught constitutional law at NYU, and was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in Riverdale, New York, with his wife, Ricki, and their two children.

Roger K. Newman is Research Scholar at New York University School of Law.

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odyssey was long, varied, unlikely, and remarkably successful. It began in 1886 in the Alabama hill country and ended in 1971, when Americans were demonstrating in the streets. As a United States senator from 1927 to 1937 and then for thirty-four years on the United States Supreme Court as its most passionate civil libertarian, Black fought for the rights and welfare of all people.

Here is the first full-scale biography of this commanding figure. Never before has the story been so richly told. Roger Newman reveals much we did not know -- about Black's activities in the Ku Klux Klan and the furor over his appointment by FDR to the Supreme Court. He takes us behind the scenes at the Court and into its secret conferences, showing us the preparation of opinions and explaining the relationships among the justices.

Black is seen as he was -- a brilliant trial lawyer, the investigating senator called by one reporter "a walking encyclopedia with a Southern accent," and the

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Verlag
Pantheon Books
Erscheinungsdatum
1994
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0679431802
ISBN 13 
9780679431800
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