Justices, Presidents, and Senators: A History of the U.S. Supreme Court Appointments from Washington to ClintonThis totally revised and updated classic is a comprehensive and accessible history of the first 108 members of the U.S. Supreme Court. 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 day, whether the appointees ultimately lived up to the expectations of the American public, and the legacy of their jurisprudence on the development of American law and society. Among Abraham's numerous observations is that fully one-fifth of the Supreme Court's members were viewed as failures by the presidents who appointed them. The text is also enhanced by photographs of every justice from 1789 to 1999. |
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Contents
Introductory Reflections Of Criteria Evaluations and Judgments | 1 |
The Nixon Era A Turbulent Case Study | 9 |
How They Get There Appointing Supreme Court Justices | 17 |
Why They Get There Qualifications and Rationalizations | 35 |
The First Forty Years From George Washington to John Quincy Adams 17891829 | 53 |
The Next Forty Years From Andrew Jackson to Andrew Johnson 18291869 | 71 |
The Balance of the Nineteenth Century From Ulysses S Grant to William McKinley 18691901 | 95 |
Into the Twentieth Century From Theodore Roosevelt to Herbert Hoover 19011933 | 117 |
Epilogue | 299 |
Notes | 303 |
Rating Supreme Court Justices | 341 |
Rating Presidents | 345 |
Statistical Data on Supreme Court Justices | 349 |
Bibliography | 355 |
General Works | 356 |
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The Court Alters Course FDR and Truman 19331953 | 157 |
The Warren Court From Ike to LBJ 19531969 | 189 |
The Burger Court From Nixon to Reagan 19691986 | 223 |
The Rehnquist Court Reagan Bush and Clinton 1986 | 263 |
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