PACKING THE COURT: THE RISE OF JUDICIAL POWER AND THE COMING CRISIS OF THE SUPREME COURT
Language: English
Published by Penguin Press, New York, 2009
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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In one of his last books, Pulitzer-prize winner Burns tells the fascinating history of the court's rise to power and its conflicts with presidents and popular opinion.
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- Title
- PACKING THE COURT: THE RISE OF JUDICIAL POWER AND THE COMING CRISIS OF THE SUPREME COURT
- Author
- Burns, James MacGregor
- Publisher
- Penguin Press, New York
- Publication year
- 2009
- Condition
- Fine in dust jacket
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1594202192
- ISBN 13
- 9781594202193
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Dimensions
- 6.5 x 1.1 x 9.5 inches
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About the Author
James MacGregor Burns is the Woodrow Wilson Professor of Government Emeritus at Williams College and Distinguished Leadership Scholar at the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership at the University of Maryland. He is the author of more than two dozen books, including Roosevelt: Soldier of Freedom, which won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and Leadership, which is considered a seminal work in the field of leadership studies.
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