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FDR V. Constitution: The Court-Packing Fight and the Triumph of Democracy - Hardcover

 
9780802715890: FDR V. Constitution: The Court-Packing Fight and the Triumph of Democracy

Synopsis

A behind-the-scenes account of FDR's 1937 effort to reinstate his New Deal legislative programs by adding six new justices to the Supreme Court recounts the unexpected failure of the president's proposal and the ways in which the outcome reshaped the nation. 35,000 first printing.

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About the Author

Burt Solomon has written about the nation's capital and its history for three decades. A longtime correspondent for National Journal, he is the author of The Washington Century: Three Families and the Shaping of the Nation's Capital and Where They Ain't: The Fabled Life and Untimely Death of the Original Baltimore Orioles, the Team That Gave Birth to Modern Baseball, named one of the twenty best books of the millennium by GQ. He lives inside the Capital Beltway.

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