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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Abraham, Henry Julian, 1921- Justices and presidents. New York : Oxford University Press, 1992 (OCoLC)555791404 Online version: Abraham, Henry Julian, 1921- Justices and presidents. New York : Oxford University Press, 1992 (OCoLC)609209382 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Henry Julian Abraham |
| ISBN: | 0195065573 9780195065572 |
| OCLC Number: | 23179830 |
| Description: | xiv, 467 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Introductory reflections : of criteria, evaluations, and judgments -- The Nixon era : a turbulent case study -- How they get there : appointing Supreme Court justices -- Why they get there : qualifications and rationalizations -- The first forty years : from George Washington to John Quincy Adams, 1789-1829 -- The next forty years : from Andrew Jackson to Andrew Johnson, 1829-1869 -- The balance of the nineteenth century : from Ulysses S. Grant to William McKinley, 1869-1901 -- Into the twentieth century : from Theodore Roosevelt to Herbert Hoover, 1901-1933 -- The court alters course : FDR and Truman, 1933-1953 -- The Warren court : from Ike to LBJ, 1953-1969 -- The Burger court : from Nixon to Reagan, 1969-1986 -- The Rehnquist court : Reagan and Bush, 1986-. |
| Responsibility: | Henry J. Abraham. |
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- United States. -- Supreme Court -- History.
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