Author: Felix FrankfurterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Felix Frankfurter Reminisces Recorded in Talks with Dr Harland B. Phillips
Author: Felix FrankfurterFelix Frankfurter Reminisces
Author: Felix FrankfurterFelix Frankfurter Reminisces
Author: Felix FrankfurterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Judges
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Felix Frankfurter Reminiscences
Author: Felix FrankfurterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Judges
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Felix frankfurter reminisces, by harlan b. phillips
Author: Harlan b PhillipsFelix Frankfurter Reminisces
Author: Felix FrankfurterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Judges
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Chairman: John J McCloy & The Making of the American Establishment
Author: Kai BirdPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501169173
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 759
Book Description
“Exhaustively researched and remarkably evenhanded.” —The New York Times “Absorbing…the definitive life story.” —Kirkus Reviews “A fascinating study.” —Los Angeles Times In The Chairman, the authoritative biography of John J. McCloy, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Kai Bird chronicles the life of the man labeled “the most influential private citizen in America.” Against the backgrounds of World War II, the Cold War, the construction of Pax Americana, the Cuban missile crisis, the Kennedy assassination, and Vietnam, Bird shows us McCloy’s astonishing rise from self-described “chore boy” to “chairman of the Establishment.” His powerful circle shaped the postwar globe. But McCloy stood out among them as a towering figure of achievement: as a Wall Street lawyer who earned the confidence of captains of industry and presidents; as Henry Stimson’s right-hand man at the War Department; as president of the World Bank and chairman of the Chase financial empire; and as presidential adviser. Bird captures every facet of this self-made man. We see McCloy’s commercial acumen as the most in-demand lawyer of Wall Street; his dictatorial will as high commissioner of occupied Germany; and his stoic loyalty as adviser to Presidents FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, Ford, and Reagan. Bird brilliantly explores how McCloy came to epitomize the American Establishment and the values of a generation that led the United States through bitter war and unparalleled prosperity.
Felix Frankfurter Reminisces
Author: Felix FrankfurterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Judges
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
The Turn to Process
Author: Kunal M. ParkerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009335243
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
In The Turn to Process, Kunal M. Parker explores the massive reorientation of American legal, political, and economic thinking between 1870 and 1970. Over this period, American conceptions of law, democracy, and markets went from being oriented around truths, ends, and foundations to being oriented around methods, processes, and techniques. No longer viewed as founded in justice and morality, law became a way of doing things centered around legal procedure. Shedding its foundations in the 'people,' democracy became a technique of governance consisting of an endless process of interacting groups. Liberating themselves from the truths of labor, markets and market actors became intellectual and political techniques without necessary grounding in the reality of human behavior. Contrasting nineteenth and twentieth century legal, political, and economic thought, this book situates this transformation in the philosophical crisis of modernism and the rise of the administrative state.
Salt of the Earth, Conscience of the Court
Author: John M. FerrenPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807876615
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
The Kentucky-born son of a Baptist preacher, with an early tendency toward racial prejudice, Supreme Court Justice Wiley Rutledge (1894-1949) became one of the Court's leading liberal activists and an early supporter of racial equality, free speech, and church-state separation. Drawing on more than 160 interviews, John M. Ferren provides a valuable analysis of Rutledge's life and judicial decisionmaking and offers the most comprehensive explanation to date for the Supreme Court nominations of Rutledge, Felix Frankfurter, and William O. Douglas. Rutledge was known for his compassion and fairness. He opposed discrimination based on gender and poverty and pressed for expanded rights to counsel, due process, and federal review of state criminal convictions. During his brief tenure on the Court (he died following a stroke at age fifty-five), he contributed significantly to enhancing civil liberties and the rights of naturalized citizens and criminal defendants, became the Court's most coherent expositor of the commerce clause, and dissented powerfully from military commission convictions of Japanese generals after World War II. Through an examination of Rutledge's life, Ferren highlights the development of American common law and legal education, the growth of the legal profession and related institutions, and the evolution of the American court system, including the politics of judicial selection.