The US Supreme Court (nonfiction)

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Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg 4.18 avg rating — 63,000 ratings
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Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary
Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary 4.21 avg rating — 911 ratings
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The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court 4.09 avg rating — 18,284 ratings
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My Own Words
My Own Words 4.03 avg rating — 26,524 ratings
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My Beloved World
My Beloved World 4.09 avg rating — 33,501 ratings
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The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court
The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court 4.14 avg rating — 5,147 ratings
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John Marshall: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court
John Marshall: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court 3.80 avg rating — 467 ratings
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Sandra Day O'Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice
Sandra Day O'Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice 3.73 avg rating — 437 ratings
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life 4.22 avg rating — 3,077 ratings
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Out of Order: Stories from the History of the Supreme Court
Out of Order: Stories from the History of the Supreme Court 3.22 avg rating — 1,553 ratings
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Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times
Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times 4.18 avg rating — 1,128 ratings
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Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court: From Brandeis to Kagan
Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court: From Brandeis to Kagan 4.10 avg rating — 41 ratings
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American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia 3.95 avg rating — 261 ratings
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The Case Against the Supreme Court
The Case Against the Supreme Court 4.01 avg rating — 441 ratings
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Injustices: The Supreme Court's History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted
Injustices: The Supreme Court's History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted 4.07 avg rating — 368 ratings
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Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun's Supreme Court Journey
Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun's Supreme Court Journey 4.11 avg rating — 1,363 ratings
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Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion
Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion 4.20 avg rating — 342 ratings
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Fair Labor Lawyer: The Remarkable Life of New Deal Attorney and Supreme Court Advocate Bessie Margolin (Southern Biography Series)
Fair Labor Lawyer: The Remarkable Life of New Deal Attorney and Supreme Court Advocate Bessie Margolin (Southern Biography Series) 4.52 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Heart of Atlanta: Five Black Pastors and the Supreme Court Victory for Integration
Heart of Atlanta: Five Black Pastors and the Supreme Court Victory for Integration 4.07 avg rating — 43 ratings
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American Crusade: How the Supreme Court Is Weaponizing Religious Freedom
American Crusade: How the Supreme Court Is Weaponizing Religious Freedom 4.50 avg rating — 426 ratings
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The Genome Defense: Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA
The Genome Defense: Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA 4.30 avg rating — 441 ratings
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Lovely One: A Memoir
Lovely One: A Memoir 4.46 avg rating — 8,583 ratings
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The Failure of the Founding Fathers: Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise of Presidential Democracy
The Failure of the Founding Fathers: Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise of Presidential Democracy 3.89 avg rating — 99 ratings
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Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas
Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas 4.09 avg rating — 520 ratings
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Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment
Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment 3.98 avg rating — 41 ratings
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The Company They Keep: How Partisan Divisions Came to the Supreme Court
The Company They Keep: How Partisan Divisions Came to the Supreme Court 3.71 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Gideon's Trumpet
Gideon's Trumpet 3.91 avg rating — 3,034 ratings
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Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights
Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights 4.26 avg rating — 333 ratings
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Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices
Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices 4.18 avg rating — 1,938 ratings
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Eisenhower vs. Warren: The Battle for Civil Rights and Liberties
Eisenhower vs. Warren: The Battle for Civil Rights and Liberties 4.14 avg rating — 182 ratings
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Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck
Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck 3.77 avg rating — 2,591 ratings
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Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court
Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court 3.92 avg rating — 151 ratings
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The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America (The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series)
The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America (The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series) 4.24 avg rating — 281 ratings
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We Face the Dawn: Oliver Hill, Spottswood Robinson, and the Legal Team That Dismantled Jim Crow (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series: Black Studies at Work in the World)
We Face the Dawn: Oliver Hill, Spottswood Robinson, and the Legal Team That Dismantled Jim Crow (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series: Black Studies at Work in the World) 4.57 avg rating — 37 ratings
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The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of Reconstruction
The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of Reconstruction 4.09 avg rating — 431 ratings
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Closing the Courthouse Door: How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable
Closing the Courthouse Door: How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable 4.15 avg rating — 60 ratings
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A History of the Supreme Court
A History of the Supreme Court 3.87 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Supreme Court Decisions
Supreme Court Decisions 4.20 avg rating — 129 ratings
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The Long Reach of the Sixties: LBJ, Nixon, and the Making of the Contemporary Supreme Court
The Long Reach of the Sixties: LBJ, Nixon, and the Making of the Contemporary Supreme Court 4.27 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Supreme Court: A C-SPAN Book, Featuring the Justices in their Own Words (C-Span Books)
The Supreme Court: A C-SPAN Book, Featuring the Justices in their Own Words (C-Span Books) 3.82 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Supreme Injustice: Slavery in the Nation’s Highest Court
Supreme Injustice: Slavery in the Nation’s Highest Court 3.61 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Together: An Inspiring Response to the “Separate-But-Equal” Supreme Court Decision that Divided America
Together: An Inspiring Response to the “Separate-But-Equal” Supreme Court Decision that Divided America 3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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What Kind of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Struggle to Create a United States
What Kind of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Struggle to Create a United States 3.86 avg rating — 460 ratings
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Out of Order: Stories from the History of the Supreme Court
Out of Order: Stories from the History of the Supreme Court 3.22 avg rating — 1,553 ratings
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The Most Dangerous Branch: Inside the Supreme Court's Assault on the Constitution
The Most Dangerous Branch: Inside the Supreme Court's Assault on the Constitution 3.94 avg rating — 515 ratings
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Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America
Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America 3.99 avg rating — 1,247 ratings
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Glass and Gavel: The U.S. Supreme Court and Alcohol
Glass and Gavel: The U.S. Supreme Court and Alcohol 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Crusaders in the Courts: Legal Battles of the Civil Rights Movement
Crusaders in the Courts: Legal Battles of the Civil Rights Movement 4.12 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The American Constitution and Religion
The American Constitution and Religion 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Newsworthy: The Supreme Court Battle over Privacy and Press Freedom
Newsworthy: The Supreme Court Battle over Privacy and Press Freedom really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right
The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right 3.92 avg rating — 181 ratings
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The Voting Rights War: The NAACP and the Ongoing Struggle for Justice
The Voting Rights War: The NAACP and the Ongoing Struggle for Justice 4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Plutocrats United: Campaign Money, the Supreme Court, and the Distortion of American Elections
Plutocrats United: Campaign Money, the Supreme Court, and the Distortion of American Elections really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Slavery and Citizenship: The Dred Scott Case
Slavery and Citizenship: The Dred Scott Case 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas
Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas 4.18 avg rating — 528 ratings
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Young Thurgood: The Making of a Supreme Court Justice
Young Thurgood: The Making of a Supreme Court Justice 4.19 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Constance Baker Motley: One Woman's Fight for Civil Rights and Equal Justice under Law
Constance Baker Motley: One Woman's Fight for Civil Rights and Equal Justice under Law 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The New Roberts Court, Donald Trump, and Our Failing Constitution
The New Roberts Court, Donald Trump, and Our Failing Constitution 3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Breaking In: The Rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice
Breaking In: The Rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice 3.67 avg rating — 255 ratings
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The Supreme Court and the American Family: Ideology and Issues
The Supreme Court and the American Family: Ideology and Issues 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America 4.40 avg rating — 15,749 ratings
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The Papers of John Marshall, Volume 1
The Papers of John Marshall, Volume 1 liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind
The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind 4.27 avg rating — 275 ratings
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Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue: A Life's Work Fighting for a More Perfect Union (Law in the Public Square) (Volume 2)
Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue: A Life's Work Fighting for a More Perfect Union (Law in the Public Square) (Volume 2) 3.96 avg rating — 292 ratings
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The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption
The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption 3.90 avg rating — 52 ratings
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I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark
I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark 4.33 avg rating — 6,337 ratings
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Law and Legitimacy in the Supreme Court
Law and Legitimacy in the Supreme Court 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court (Southern Biography Series)
John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court (Southern Biography Series) 3.76 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality
Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality 4.38 avg rating — 595 ratings
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Lincoln and the Court
Lincoln and the Court 4.13 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas
Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas 4.22 avg rating — 585 ratings
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Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)
Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) 3.69 avg rating — 185 ratings
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The Prince and The Pauper: The Case Against Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice of The U.S. Supreme Court
The Prince and The Pauper: The Case Against Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice of The U.S. Supreme Court really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet
Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet 3.75 avg rating — 321 ratings
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The Unexpected Scalia: A Conservative Justice's Liberal Opinions
The Unexpected Scalia: A Conservative Justice's Liberal Opinions really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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You Are Not American: Citizenship Stripping from Dred Scott to the Dreamers
You Are Not American: Citizenship Stripping from Dred Scott to the Dreamers 4.31 avg rating — 128 ratings
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Brown v. Board of Education: A Fight for Simple Justice
Brown v. Board of Education: A Fight for Simple Justice 4.01 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Unlikely Heroes: The Southern Judges Who Made Brown Work
Unlikely Heroes: The Southern Judges Who Made Brown Work
by: Jack Bass
4.21 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made
Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made 4.20 avg rating — 527 ratings
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Jane Against the World: Roe v. Wade and the Fight for Reproductive Rights
Jane Against the World: Roe v. Wade and the Fight for Reproductive Rights 4.33 avg rating — 1,088 ratings
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Overruled: The Long War for Control of the U.S. Supreme Court
Overruled: The Long War for Control of the U.S. Supreme Court 4.22 avg rating — 101 ratings
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January 1973: Watergate, Roe v. Wade, Vietnam, and the Month That Changed America Forever
January 1973: Watergate, Roe v. Wade, Vietnam, and the Month That Changed America Forever 3.91 avg rating — 180 ratings
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Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers 4.27 avg rating — 1,619 ratings
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Judging the Boy Scouts of America: Gay Rights, Freedom of Association, and the Dale Case
Judging the Boy Scouts of America: Gay Rights, Freedom of Association, and the Dale Case 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation
The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation 3.90 avg rating — 857 ratings
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The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution 4.23 avg rating — 2,542 ratings
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Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World
Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World 3.84 avg rating — 5,309 ratings
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David Hackett Souter: Traditional Republican On The Rehnquist Court
David Hackett Souter: Traditional Republican On The Rehnquist Court 3.30 avg rating — 50 ratings
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The Brown Decision, Jim Crow, and Southern Identity
The Brown Decision, Jim Crow, and Southern Identity 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Thurgood Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions, and Reminiscences (The Library of Black America series)
Thurgood Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions, and Reminiscences (The Library of Black America series) 4.50 avg rating — 30 ratings
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On Democracy's Doorstep: The Inside Story of How the Supreme Court Brought "One Person, One Vote" to the United States
On Democracy's Doorstep: The Inside Story of How the Supreme Court Brought "One Person, One Vote" to the United States 4.15 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Nature’s Justice: Writings of William O. Douglas (Northwest Readers)
Nature’s Justice: Writings of William O. Douglas (Northwest Readers) 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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On the Supreme Court: Without Illusion and Idolatry
On the Supreme Court: Without Illusion and Idolatry 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Justice Stephen Field: Shaping Liberty from the Gold Rush to the Gilded Age
Justice Stephen Field: Shaping Liberty from the Gold Rush to the Gilded Age
by: Paul Kens
3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Southern Manifesto: Massive Resistance and the Fight to Preserve Segregation
The Southern Manifesto: Massive Resistance and the Fight to Preserve Segregation really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Chief Executive to Chief Justice: Taft betwixt the White House and Supreme Court
Chief Executive to Chief Justice: Taft betwixt the White House and Supreme Court 3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Reason and Passion: Justice Brennan's Enduring Influence
Reason and Passion: Justice Brennan's Enduring Influence 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Suing Alma Mater: Higher Education and the Courts
Suing Alma Mater: Higher Education and the Courts 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction
The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction 3.83 avg rating — 408 ratings
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