Nelson Johnson

Battleground New Jersey

Vanderbilt, Hague, and Their Fight for Justice

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

New Jersey's legal system was plagued with injustices from the time the system was established through the mid-twentieth century. In Battleground New Jersey, historian and author of Boardwalk Empire, Nelson Johnson chronicles reforms to the system through the dramatic stories of Arthur T. Vanderbilt - the first chief justice of the state's modern-era Supreme Court - and Frank Hague - legendary mayor of Jersey City.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 152mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780813569727
• ISBN-10: 0813569729
• Artikelnr.: 40843828

Autorenporträt

NELSON JOHNSON is best known for his award-winning New York Times bestseller, Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City, which inspired the HBO series, and most recently Northside: African Americans and the Creation of Atlantic City.   

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Prologue         Power Doesn't Corrupt: It Reveals
Chapter 1        Sadie’s Saga
Chapter 2        Roseville’s Prodigy
Chapter 3        The Lawyer as Public Person
Chapter 4        A Force in Four Worlds
Chapter 5        Up from the Horseshoe
Chapter 6        The Celtic Chieftain
Chapter 7        Clean Government versus Hagueism
Chapter 8        Box 96: Arthur and David
Chapter 9        The Inventor’s Son
Chapter 10      The Archbishop Shows His Gratitude
Chapter 11      Haddonfield’s Mensch
Chapter 12      Things Get Curious
Chapter 13      Summer at Rutgers
Chapter 14      The Chief
Chapter 15      The Chief Supreme
Notes
Bibliography
Index