New Books in U.S. Constitutional/Legal History
Fall Edition, 2008
(compiled by Timothy S. Huebner, Rhodes College)
Allen, Howard W., Jerome M. Clubb, and Vincent A. Lacey, Race, Class, and the Death Penalty: Capital Punishment in American History. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 2008. 239 pp. (cloth, $65.00).
Baatz, Simon. For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder that Shocked Chicago. New York: Harper, 2008. 560 pp. (cloth, $27.95).
Baer, Frances Lisa. Resistance to Public School Desegregation: Little Rock, Arkansas, and Beyond. El Paso, Tex. LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2008. 328 pp. (cloth, $80.00).
Bodenhamer, David J. and James W. Ely Jr. The Bill of Rights in Modern America. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2008. Rev. ed. 304 pp. (cloth, $55.00).
Capozolla, Chris. Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern Citizen. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. 352 pp. (cloth, $35.00).
Cornell, Saul. A Well-Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. 288 pp. (paper, $14.95).
De Been, Wouter, Legal Realism Regained: Saving Realism from Critical Acclaim. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008. 264 pp. (cloth, $60.00).
Dinnerstein, Leonard. The Leo Frank Case. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, rev. ed., 2008. 280 pp. (paper, $19.95).
Dudziak, Mary. Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall’s African Journey. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. 272 pp. (cloth, $24.95)
Edling, Max M. A Revolution in Favor of Government: Origins of the U.S. Constitution and the Making of the American State. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. 336 pp. (paper, $19.95).
Eskridge, William. Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America, 1861-2003. New York: Viking, 2008. 528 pp.
Feldman, Stephen M. Free Expression and Democracy in America: A History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. 544 pp. (cloth, $55.00).
Finan, Chris. From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act: A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America. New York: Beacon Press, 2008. (paper, $18.00).
Finkelman, Paul and Donald R. Kennon, eds., Congress and the Emergence of Sectionalism: From the Missouri Compromise to the Age of Jackson. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2008. 312 pp. (cloth, $46.95).
Finkelman, Paul and Melvin I. Urofsky, eds. Landmark Decisions of the United States Supreme Court. Second ed. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2008. 784 pp. (cloth, $250.00)
Fisher, Louis. The Constitution and 9/11: Recurring Threats to America’s Freedoms. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 2008. 394 pp. (cloth, $45.00, paper, $19.95).
Fritz, Christian G. American Sovereigns: The People and America’s Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 440 pp. (cloth, $80.00).
Gless, Alan G, ed. The History of Nebraska Law. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2008. Law, Society, and Politics in the Midwest. 384 pp. (cloth, $49.95).
Goldman, Robert M. One Man Out: Curt Flood versus Baseball. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 2008. Landmark Law Cases and American Society. 200 pp. (cloth, $35.00, paper, $16.95)
Goldstone, Lawrence. The Activist: John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, and the Myth of Judicial Review, 2008. New York: Walker and Company. 272 pp. (cloth, $25.00).
Goldstein, Robert Justin. American Blacklist: the Attorney General’s List of Subversive Organizations. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. 361 pp. (cloth, $34.95).
Gross, Ariela. What Blood Won’t Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008. 384 pp. (cloth, $29.95).
Hall, Kermit L. and Peter Karsten. The Magic Mirror: Law in American History, New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. second ed. 480 pp. (cloth, $69.95)
Hamburger, Philip. Law and Judicial Duty. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008. 704 pp. (cloth, $49.95).
Harrington, Matthew. Jay and Ellsworth, The First Courts: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2008. 309 pp. Supreme Court Handbooks. (cloth, $65.00)
Hohenstein, Kurt. Coining Corruption: The Making of the American Campaign Finance System. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007.
Hoffer, Peter Charles. Treason Trials of Aaron Burr. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 2008. Landmark Law Cases and American Society. 224 pp. (cloth, $35.00, paper $16.95)
Huebner, Timothy S. The Southern Judicial Tradition: State Judges and Sectional Distinctiveness, 1790-1890. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 2008. Paperback ed. Studies in the Legal History of the South (Paper, $22.95).
Hulsebosch, Daniel J. Constituting Empire: New York and the Transformation of Constitutionalism in the Atlantic World, 1664-1830. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. Studies in Legal History (cloth, $45.00, paper, $24.95).
Kirkpatrick, Jennet. Uncivil Disobedience: Studies in Violence and Democratic Politics. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2008. 152 pp. (cloth, $40.00, paper, $22.95).
Kyvig, David E. The Age of Impeachment: American Constitutional Culture since 1960
Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 2008. 554 pp. (cloth, $34.95)
Mahler, Jonathan. The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight Over Presidential Power. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008. 352 pp. (cloth, $26.00).
Maveety, Nancy. Queen’s Court: Judicial Power in the Rehnquist Era. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 2008. 194 pp. (cloth, $29.95).
Meyerson, Michael I. Liberty's Blueprint: How Madison and Hamilton Wrote the Federalist Papers, Defined the Constitution, and Made Democracy Safe for the World. New York: Basic Books, 2008. 314 pp. (cloth, $26.00).
Miller, William G. Faith, Reason, and Consent: Legislating Morality in Early American States. El Paso, Tex.: LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2008. 298 pp. (cloth, $80.00).
Nourse, Victoria F. In Reckless Hands: Skinner v. Oklahoma and the Near-Triumph of American Eugenics. New York: Norton, 2008. 256 pp. (cloth, $24.95).
Reid, John Phillip. Legislating the Courts: Judicial Dependence in Early National New Hampshire. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2008. 224 pp. (cloth, $34.00).
Rogers, Alan. Murder and the Death Penalty in Massachusetts. Amherst & Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008. 480pp. (cloth, $98.00, paper, $34.95).
Scherer, Mark R. and James W. Hewitt. Rights in the Balance: Free Press, Fair Trial, and Nebraska Press Association v. Stuart. Lubbock, Tex. Texas Tech University Press, 2008. 256 pp. (cloth, $40.00)
Siegal, Barry. Claim of Privilege: A Mysterious Plane Crash, A Landmark Supreme Court Case, and the Rise of State Secrets. New York: Harper, 2008. 400 pp. (cloth, $25.95).
Stewart, Davod O. The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008. 368 pp. (paper, $15.00).
Thomas, George. The Madisonian Constitution. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. 264 pp. (cloth, $50.00).
Tsai, Robert. Eloquence and Reason: Creating a First Amendment Culture. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2008. 216 pp. (cloth, $45.00).
Vile, John R., William D. Pederson, and Frank J. Williams. James Madison: Philosopher, Founder, and Statesman. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2008. 368 pp. (cloth, $55.00, paper, $26.95).
Wittern-Keller, Laura. Freedom of the Screen: Legal Challenges to State-Film Censorship, 1915-1981. Lexington, Ken.: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. 384 pp. (cloth, $55.00).
Wittern-Keller, Laura and Raymond J. Haberski Jr., Miracle Case: Film Censorship and the Supreme Court. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 2008. Landmark Law Cases and American Society. 256 pp. (cloth, $35.00; paper, $16.95)
Wolf, Michael Allan. The Zoning of America: Euclid v. Ambler. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 2008. Landmark Law Cases and American Society. 208 pp. (cloth, $35.00, paper, $16.95)
Woods, Thomas E. and Kevin R.C. Gutzman. Who Killed the Constitution? The Fate of American Liberty from World War I to George W. Bush. New York: Crown Forum, 2008. 272 pp. (cloth, $25.95).
Wunder, John R. and Joann M. Ross, eds., The Nebraska-Kansas Act of 1854. Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. 236 pp. (paper, $30.00).
Zelden, Charles. Bush v. Gore: Exposing the Hidden Crisis in American Democracy. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 2008. 390 pp. (cloth, $34.95).
(This list is compiled from publishers’ websites and Amazon.com and includes titles published between June and November 2008. Authors are encouraged to submit information on upcoming books to huebner@rhodes.edu )
