The federal courts : an essential history / Peter Charles Hoffer, Williamjames Hull Hoffer, N.E.H. Hull.
2016
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Title
The federal courts : an essential history / Peter Charles Hoffer, Williamjames Hull Hoffer, N.E.H. Hull.
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Call Number
KF8719 .H64 2016
ISBN
9780199387908 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0199387907 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780199387915 (E-book)
9780199387922 (E-book)
0199387907 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780199387915 (E-book)
9780199387922 (E-book)
Description
xxiii, 536 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)925411023
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Available in Other Form
Online version: Hoffer, Peter Charles, 1944- Federal courts 9780199387915 (OCoLC)925411038
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Purchased from the income of the Fisch Fund
Added Corporate Author
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The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Fisch Fund
Table of Contents
Foreword
xv
Preface
xvii
Author's Acknowledgments
xxi
Introduction
1
pt. I
COURTS IN THE FORMATIVE ERA, 1776--1860
1.
Founding the Federal Courts, 1776--1789
13
2.
Open for Business, 1789--1801
45
3.
New Beginning, 1801--1835
79
4.
Antebellum Courts, 1836--1860
106
pt. II
COURTS AND THE FOUNDING OF MODERN AMERICA, 1861--1929
5.
Courts in Crisis Times, 1861--1876
147
6.
Gilded Age Courts, 1877--1896
185
7.
Federal Courts in the Progressive Era, 1897--1919
219
8.
Federal Courts in the Age of Anxiety, 1921--1929
254
pt. III
NO LONGER THE WEAKEST BRANCH, THE COURTS FROM 1929 TO 1986
9.
Courts in the Great Depression, 1929--1940
281
10.
Federal Courts and the "Good War," 1941--1945
314
11.
Courts and the Cold War, 1946--1954
338
12.
Federal Courts in the Civil Rights Era, 1955--1969
365
13.
Reform and Reaction, the Federal Courts, 1969--1986
393
Afterword / Jake Kobrick
425
Conclusion: Whither the Federal Courts?
443
Notes
447
Bibliographical Note
515
Index
519