Warren E Burger Foreword (8 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. Reprint. Remainder mark. 1986 Trade Paperback. xix, 346 pp. From Catherine Drinker Bowen, noted American biographer and National Book Award winner, comes the canonical account of the Constitutional Convention recommended as "required reading for every American." Looked at straight from the records, the Federal Convention is startlingly fresh and new, and Mrs. Bowen evokes it as if the reader were actually there, mingling with the delegates, hearing their arguments, witnessing a dramatic moment in history. Here is the fascinating record of the hot, sultry summer months of debate and decision when ideas clashed and tempers flared. Here is the country as it was then, described by contemporaries, by Berkshire farmers in Massachusetts, by Patrick Henry's Kentucky allies, by French and English travelers. Here, too, are the offstage voices?Thomas Jefferson and Tom Paine and John Adams from Europe. In all, fifty-five men attended; and in spite of the heat, in spite of clashing interests?the big states against the little, the slave states against the anti-slave states?in tension and anxiety that mounted week after week, they wrote out a working plan of government and put their signatures to it.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Gift quality hardcover in color illustrated glossy paper covered boards showing bumped spine ends, sharp tips and a former gift ded on fep (non authorial). 430pp text is tight, crisp and unmarked. Includes a description of the functioning of our government and its role in world affairs.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio. Books shipped within 24 hours. CLEAN!! No marks. Might as well be new. Appears unread. No dust jacket as issued. . . . . . . . Chief Justices of the United States, Taft excepted, have traditionally been identified more with decisions of the Court than their off-bench utterances. The Burger Court or The Warren Court may be a useful journalistic shorthand, but represents only one facet of the work of the Chief Justice in the last quarter of the 20th century. A Chief Justice is only one voice and one vote, and his standing as primus inter pares among the nine carries only such weight as comes from support of his positions. This is as true of the Great Chief Justice, John Marshall, as it is today. But two factors made Marshall's situation unique: much of the great work of his early years was in a court made up of Federalists - dedicated to a strong national government--and they were writing on a clean slate. Apart from that, the administration of a judicial system consisting in Marshall's day of thirteen trial judges and a Supreme Court of six hardly merits administration. There are unusual and compelling reasons for bringing together the body of thought represented in this selection of public statements by the Fifteenth Chief Justice outside the courtroom.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Paul Bacon (Jacket Design) (illustrator). Copyright 1966. 346 + xix + pp. An excellent study or work or reading or research copy! A great, almost spotlessly clean copy! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, spotlessly clean text, and light shelf wear. Smooth covers. Dust jacket suffers moderate to extensive overall wear, with some minor cuts and tears around places.

Very good with very good dust jacket. Book is lightly bumped at spine tips. Dust jacket is rubbed at spine tips and corners. 288 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Large hardcover without dust jacket. Pages unmarked, modest wear.