A comprehensive background of the people and cases that have changed history, this is the definitive accounts of the nation’s highest court

Recent adjustments in the Supreme Court have placed the venerable institution on the forefront of current affairs, causeing this to be comprehensive and engaging work as timely as ever. In the tradition of Howard Zinn’s classic A People’s History of america, Peter Irons chronicles the decisions which have influenced virtually every facet of our society, in the debates over judicial power to controversial rulings before concerning slavery, racial segregation, and abortion, aswell as more current instances about school prayer, the Bush/Gore election results, and ‘foe combatants.’ To comprehend key problems facing the supreme courtroom and the existing fight for the court’s ideological make-up, there is absolutely no better guidebook than Peter Irons. This modified and updated release carries a foreword by Howard Zinn.