Justices, Presidents, and Senators: A History of the U.S. Supreme Court Appointments from Washington to Bush II

by Henry Abraham

Book Overview

Revised to include the last eight years of Supreme Court decisions and nominations, this updated classic is the most comprehensive and accessible history of the first 110 members of the U.S. Supreme Court ever written. Henry J. Abraham, one of the nation's preeminent scholars of the judicial branch, addresses the vital questions of why individual justices were nominated to the highest court, how their nominations were received by legislators of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742558959
• ISBN13: 9780742558953
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.1" x 9.9"