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A People's History of the Supreme Court

The Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions Have Shaped Our Constitution: Revised Edition

By: Peter Irons

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A People's History of the Supreme Court

The Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions Have Shaped Our Constitution: Revised Edition

By: Peter Irons

A comprehensive history of the people and cases that have changed history, this is the definitive account of the nation's highest court featuring a forward by Howard Zinn Recent changes in the Supreme Court have placed the venerable institution at the forefront of current affairs, making this comprehensive and engaging work as timely as ever. In the tradition of Howard Zinn's classic A People's History of the United States, Peter Irons chronicles the decisions that have influenced virtually every aspect of our society, from the debates over judicial power to controversial rulings in the past regarding slavery, racial segregation, and abortion, as well as more current cases about school prayer, the Bush/Gore election results, and "enemy combatants." To understand key issues facing the supreme court and the current battle for the court's ideological makeup, there is no better guide than Peter Irons. This revised and updated edition includes a foreword by Howard Zinn. "A sophisticated narrative history of the Supreme Court . . . [Irons] breathes abundant life into old documents and reminds readers that today's fiercest arguments about rights are the continuation of the endless American conversation." -Publisher's Weekly (starred review)

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Penguin

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1101503130

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9781101503133

God on Trial

Dispatches from America's Religious Battlefields

By: Peter H. Irons

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God on Trial

Dispatches from America's Religious Battlefields

By: Peter H. Irons

A detailed examination of five recent landmark court battles over the separation of church and state offers coverage of the cases from both sides, from the 1989 challenge of a cross in a San Diego public park to the 2004 fight by parents who objected to the Dover, Pennsylvania, school board's decision to mandate the teaching of intelligent design.

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Penguin

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0670038512

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9780670038510

The Courage of Their Convictions

By: Peter H. Irons

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The Courage of Their Convictions

By: Peter H. Irons

The Courage of their Convictions cites sixteen landmark civil liberties cases and the individuals who challenged laws that they felt impinged upon their personal freedom and who took their battles to the nation’s highest court of law. “Thank goodness for the sixteen brave men and women who fought official intolerance all the way to the US Supreme Court. And thanks to the Peter Irons for presenting their moving personal reasons, in their own words, for questioning authority. Like Anthony Lewis’s Gideon’s Trumpet, this book presents constitutional law with a human face. It will be a classic.” —Norman Dorsen, President, American Civil Liberties Union New York University Law School “A fascinating account of how complex, multi-faceted conduct by individual citizens is forced into narrow, legal categories for decision by our judicial system.” —Thomas I. Emerson, Yale Law School

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Simon and Schuster

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150115513X

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9781501155130

Jim Crow's Children

The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision

By: Peter Irons

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Jim Crow's Children

The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision

By: Peter Irons

Peter Irons, acclaimed historian and author of A People History of the Supreme Court, explores of one of the supreme court's most important decisions and its disappointing aftermath In 1954 the U.S. Supreme Court sounded the death knell for school segregation with its decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. So goes the conventional wisdom. Weaving together vivid portraits of lawyers and such judges as Thurgood Marshall and Earl Warren, sketches of numerous black children throughout history whose parents joined lawsuits against Jim Crow schools, and gripping courtroom drama scenes, Irons shows how the erosion of the Brown decision—especially by the Court’s rulings over the past three decades—has led to the “resegregation” of public education in America.

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Penguin

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0142003751

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9780142003756

Justice at War

The Story of the Japanese-American Internment Cases

By: Peter Irons

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Justice at War

The Story of the Japanese-American Internment Cases

By: Peter Irons

Justice at War irrevocably alters the reader's perception of one of the most disturbing events in U.S. history—the internment during World War II of American citizens of Japanese descent. Peter Irons' exhaustive research has uncovered a government campaign of suppression, alteration, and destruction of crucial evidence that could have persuaded the Supreme Court to strike down the internment order. Irons documents the debates that took place before the internment order and the legal response during and after the internment.

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Univ of California Press

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0520083121

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9780520083127

The Steps to the Supreme Court

A Guided Tour of the American Legal System

By: Peter Irons

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The Steps to the Supreme Court

A Guided Tour of the American Legal System

By: Peter Irons

A guide to the American legal system, told through the story of two actual court cases The Steps to the Supreme Court takes a lively, narrative approach to the subject by following two real cases--one civil, one criminal--as they work their way through the system all the way up to the Supreme Court. Written by a member of the Supreme Court bar, this book brings the legal system to life in a practical, accessible, and compelling way. Covers the key legal terms, principles, and processes you need to have a basic grasp of the American legal system Tracks the criminal case involving the murder trial of Paul House and follows the defendant from the night of the murder through his conviction, appeals, and final chance for exoneration at the hands of the Supreme Court Follows a civil case concerning the Ten Commandments being displayed on public property, following the parties from the time the plaintiffs filed their complaints through the Supreme Court decisions and back to the aftermath in the lower courts as they wrestle with a divided complex ruling Written by the author of A People's History of the Supreme Court, and other classic works on the American justice system

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Turner Publishing Company

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1118138066

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9781118138069

War Powers

How the Imperial Presidency Hijacked the Constitution

By: Peter Irons

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War Powers

How the Imperial Presidency Hijacked the Constitution

By: Peter Irons

This book examines a fundamental question in the development of the American empire: What constraints does the Constitution place on our territorial expansion, military intervention, occupation of foreign countries, and on the power the president may exercise over American foreign policy? Worried about the dangers of unchecked executive power, the Founding Fathers deliberately assigned Congress the sole authority to make war. But the last time Congress declared war was on December 8, 1941, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Since then, every president from Harry Truman to George W. Bush has used military force in pursuit of imperial objectives, while Congress and the Supreme Court have virtually abdicated their responsibilities to check presidential power. Legal historian Irons recounts this story of subversion from above, tracing presidents' increasing willingness to ignore congressional authority and even suspend civil liberties.--From publisher description.

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Macmillan

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0805080171

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9780805080179

White Men's Law

The Roots of Systemic Racism

By: Peter H. Irons

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White Men's Law

The Roots of Systemic Racism

By: Peter H. Irons

Thirty lashes, well laid on" -- "Dem was hard times, Sho' Nuff" -- "Beings Of an inferior order" -- "Fighting for white supremacy" -- "The foul odors of blacks" -- "Negroes plan to kill all whites" -- "Intimate contact with negro men" -- "I thanked got right there and then" -- "War against the constitution" -- "Two cities : one white, the other black" -- "All blacks are angry" -- "The basic minimal skills" -- Epilogue : "rooting out systemic racism".

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Oxford University Press

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0190914947

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9780190914943

Jim Crow's Children

The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision

By: Peter H. Irons

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Jim Crow's Children

The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision

By: Peter H. Irons

In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court sounded the death knell for school segregation with its decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. However, Peter Irons writes that today many of our schools are even more segregated than they were on the day when Brown was decided. In this groundbreaking legal history, Irons explores the 150-year struggle against Jim Crow education, showing how the great victory over segregation was won, then lost again. The author of several award-winning books, Irons ranges from 1849 to the present as he describes a battle that has stretched across most of American history. He skillfully weaves a gripping legal drama out of the stories of brave, now-forgotten men and women, of luminaries such as Thurgood Marshall and Earl Warren, and explores the impact of the Brown decision on the communities actually involved in the case. Perceptive, fascinating, and devastating, Jim Crow's children is a major contribution to the national debate over race and its implications for the American educational system.

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1436299799

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Cases and Controversies

Constitutional Law in Context

By: Peter Irons

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Cases and Controversies

Constitutional Law in Context

By: Peter Irons

Peter Irons is the renowned constitutional scholar whose innovative book-and-tape set, May It Please the Court, brought the inner workings of the Supreme Court to the American public for the first time. Now, Irons has created a genuinely new approach to constitutional law in his latest effort to educate Americans about the legal system: a casebook, the first of its kind, that includes the seminal cases that make up our country's legal legacy and pairs them with material that sheds light on the political milieu in which these decisions were made. Including excerpts from over sixty landmark decisions in civil rights and civil liberties cases, Cases and Controversies also contains newspaper articles, transcripts of legislative hearings, essays from journals of political and social opinion, statements of concerned interest groups, and a wealth of other primary source material that links what's going on inside the court with what's going on outside of it. A major boon for teachers of undergraduate courses in constitutional law, political science, civil rights and liberties, and the Supreme Court, Cases and Controversies is a fascinating window onto the law for all Americans.

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Perseus Books Group

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156584680X

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9781565846807

May It Please the Court

By: Peter H. Irons,Stephanie Guitton

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May It Please the Court

By: Peter H. Irons,Stephanie Guitton

The bestselling, unprecedented live recordings and transcripts of twenty-three landmark Supreme Court cases.

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1565843371

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Book's by Peter. Irons

A People's History of the Supreme Court

A People's History of the Supreme Court

God on Trial

God on Trial

The Courage of Their Convictions

The Courage of Their Convictions

Jim Crow's Children

Jim Crow's Children

Justice at War

Justice at War

The Steps to the Supreme Court

The Steps to the Supreme Court

War Powers

War Powers

White Men's Law

White Men's Law

Jim Crow's Children

Jim Crow's Children

Cases and Controversies

Cases and Controversies

May It Please the Court

May It Please the Court

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