Hugo Black: A Biography - Couverture souple

Newman, Roger K.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0823217868 ISBN 13 : 9780823217861

Editeur : Fordham University Press, 1997

Synopsis

The extraordinary story of a man who bestrode his era like a colossus, Hugo Black is the first and only comprehensive biography of the Supreme Court Justice of thirty four years, (1886-1971). Once a member of the Ku Klux Klan, Black became one of the most celebrated and important civil libertarians in the history of the United States and the chief twentieth-century proponent of the First Amendment.

Newman presents us with the long odyssey of Hugo Black, capturing the man as he was--a brilliant trial lawyer, the investigating senator called by one reporter "a walking encyclopedia with a Southern accent," and the wily politician and astute justice who led the redirection of American law toward the protection of the individual.

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À propos de l'auteur

Roger K. Newman, a Research Scholar at New York University School of Law, has taught Constitutional Law at New York University and was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fordham University Press
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0823217868
• ISBN 13: 9780823217861
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 741
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• Personne responsable: non disponible