Justices and Presidents: A Political History of Appointments to the Supreme Court

By Henry David Abraham and James Hart Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs Henry Julian Abraham

"A masterpiece of scholarly analysis. The pathbreaking achievement of 1974 has been thoroughly updated to incorporate the scholarship and events of the last decade. It remains the definitive work in the field of Supreme Court appointments."--Stanley C. Brubaker, Colgate Unversity. "[Abraham's] are the meticulous judgments of a scholar and the provocative narrative fo a first-rate writer. A superlative discussion."--Stephen R. Schlesinger, U.S. Department of Justice. This mini-history of the court, now expanded by more than a third, discusses the selection, nomination, and appointment of each of the 102 justices who have sat on the U.S. Supreme Court since 1789.

In this new edition the author examines the selection, nomination, and appointment of the men -- and the one woman -- who have served as members of the court since 1789. He provides a fascinating account of the presidential motivations behind each nomination, examining how each appointee's performance on the bench fulfilled, or disappointed, presidential expectations.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195034791
• ISBN13: 9780195034790
• Release Date: February 1985
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 448 Pages