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Author James, Rawn, Jr., author

Title The Truman court : law and the limits of loyalty / Rawn James, Jr
Published Columbia, Missouri : University of Missouri Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 302 pages) : illustrations
Contents Intro -- Contents -- Prologue -- Chapter One: "We Must Have Steel." -- Chapter Two: Justice Harold Burton -- Chapter Three: Attorney General Tom Clark -- Chapter Four: The Court Truman Inherited and a Justice Abroad -- Chapter Five: "The Very Nearly Indispensable Man" -- Chapter Six: Death of a Chief Justice -- Chapter Seven: "The General Utility Man of Government" -- Chapter Eight: Open Warriors and Assassins -- Chapter Nine: "A Man to Trust" -- Chapter Ten: Meatless On-Strike Midterm Elections -- Chapter Eleven: Labor's Troubled Waters -- Chapter Twelve: The Chief Takes Charge
Chapter Thirteen: A Civil Service -- Chapter Fourteen: Truman at the Lincoln Memorial -- Chapter Fifteen: Shelley v. Kraemer: The Judicial Revolution Begins -- Chapter Sixteen: Justice Douglas and the 1948 Presidential Election -- Chapter Seventeen: The Vinson Mission -- Chapter Eighteen: Justice Tom Clark -- Chapter Nineteen: Justice Sherman Minton -- Chapter Twenty: Civil Liberties and Loyalty -- Chapter Twenty-One: The Path to Brown: First Steps -- Chapter Twenty-Two: The Path to Brown: Unanimous Progress -- Chapter Twenty-Three: Caution in the Wind
Chapter Twenty-Four: Monongahela River Valley Hope -- Chapter Twenty-Five: The District Court Hearing -- Chapter Twenty-Six: The Supreme Court Hearing -- Chapter Twenty-Seven: Conference and Resolution -- Chapter Twenty-Eight: "Zone of Twilight" -- Chapter Twenty-Nine: A President's Nadir -- Chapter Thirty: The Truman Court -- Notes -- Index
Summary "The Truman Court: Law and the Limits of Loyalty argues that the years between FDR's death in 1945 and Chief Justice Earl Warren's confirmation in 1953-the dawn of the Cold War-were, contrary to widespread belief, important years in Supreme Court history. Never before or since has a president so quickly and completely changed the ideological and temperamental composition of the Court. With remarkable swiftness and certainty, Truman constructed a Court on which he relied to lend constitutional credence to his political agenda"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 20, 2021)
Subject Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972.
Warren, Earl, 1891-1974.
SUBJECT Warren, Earl, 1891-1974
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 fast
Warren, Earl, 1891-1974 fast
Subject United States. Supreme Court -- History
SUBJECT United States. Supreme Court fast
Subject Political questions and judicial power -- United States -- History
Judges -- United States -- History
Judges
Political questions and judicial power
Politics and government
SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140455
Subject United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020048217
ISBN 9780826274564
0826274560