Laura Kalman (Distingu Distinguished Research Professor of History

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Fdr's Gambit

The Court Packing Fight and the Rise of Legal Liberalism

Beschreibung

When Franklin Roosevelt proposed adding up to six new justices to the Supreme Court in 1937, a firestorm exploded. FDR was accused of "Court packing," dictatorial ambitions, political trickery, undermining the rule of law, and undercutting judicial independence. Drawing upon extensive archival research, Laura Kalman revises the conventional wisdom by telling the story as it unfolded in FDR's Gambit. She argues that acumen, not arrogance, accounted for Roosevelt's actions. Far from erring tragically, he came very close to getting additional justices, and the Court itself changed course.

Autor

Laura Kalman is Distinguished Research Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, a member of the California Bar, and Past President of the American Society for Legal History. She is the author of The Long Reach of the Sixties: LBJ, Nixon, and the Making of the Contemporary Supreme Court; Right Star Rising: A New Politics, 1974-1980; Yale Law School and the Sixties: Revolt and Reverberations; The Strange Career of Legal Liberalism; Abe Fortas: A Biography; and Legal Realism at Yale, 1927-1960.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 164mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 734g
• ISBN-13: 9780197539293
• ISBN-10: 0197539297
• Artikelnr.: 65832766