New Books in U.S. Constitutional/Legal History
Spring Edition, 2009

(compiled by Timothy S. Huebner, Rhodes College)

Bon Tempo, Carl J.  Americans at the Gate:  The United States and Refugees during the Cold War.  Princeton, N.J.:  Princeton University Press, 2008.  280 pp.  (cloth, $35.00).

Bouton, Terry.  Taming Democracy:  “The People,” the Founders, and the Troubled Ending of the American Revolution.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 2009.  344 pp.  (paper, $21.95).

Brooks, Carl Boyd.  Before Earth Day:  The Origins of American Environmental Law, 1945-1970.  Lawrence, Kan.:  University Press of Kansas, 2009.  288 pp.  (cloth, $34.95).

Cobb, Daniel M.  Native Activism in Cold War America:  The Struggle for Sovereignty.  Lawrence, Kan.:  University Press of Kansas, 2009.  336 pp.  (cloth, $34.95).

Cuddihy, William J.  The Fourth Amendment:  Origins and Original Meaning, 602-1791.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 2009.  1008 pp.  (cloth, $150.00). 

Edwards, Laura F.  The People and Their Peace:  Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South.  Chapel Hill, N.C.:  University of North Carolina Press, 2009.  448 pp.  (cloth $39.95).

Elliott, Mark.  Color Blind Justice:  Albion Tourgee and the Quest for Racial Equality from the Civil War to Plessy v. Ferguson.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 2008.  400 pp.  (paper, $17.95).

Fenster, Julie M.  The Case of Abraham Lincoln:  A Story of Adultery, Murder, and the Making of a Great President.  New York:  Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.  256 pp.  (paper, $14.95).

Friedman, Joel William.  Champion of Civil Rights:  Judge John Minor Wisdom.  Baton Rouge, La.  Louisiana State University Press, 2009.  376 pp.  Southern Biography Series.  (cloth, $49.95).

Hamilton, Daniel W. and Alfred L. Brophy.  Transformations in American Legal History:  Essays in Honor of Professor Morton J. Horwitz.  Cambridge, Mass.:  Harvard University Press, 2009.  300 pp.  (cloth, $45.00).

Harmon, Alexandra, ed.  The Power of Promises:  Rethinking Indian Treaties in the Pacific Northwest.  Seattle:  University of Washington Press, 2009.  358 pp.  (cloth, $65.00, paper, $28.95). 

Hayes, Anna R.  Without Precedent:  The Life of Susie Marshall Sharp.  Chapel Hill, N.C.:  University of North Carolina Press, 2009.  576 pp.  (cloth, $35.00).

Horwitz, Joshua and Casey Anderson.  Guns, Democracy, and the Insurrectionist Idea.  Ann Arbor, Mich.:  University of Michigan Press, 2009.  296 pp.  (cloth, $65.00).

Jones, Bernie D.  Fathers of Conscience:  Mixed-Race Inheritance in the Antebellum South. Athens, Ga.:  University of Georgia Press, 2009.  192 pp.  Studies in the Legal History of the South.  (cloth, $59.95, paper, $24.95).

Kende, Mark S.  Constitutional Rights in Two Worlds:  South Africa and the United States.  New York:  Cambridge University Presss, 2009.  336 pp.  (cloth, $90.00).

Kimball, Bruce A.  The Inception of Modern Professional Education:  C. C. Langdell, 1826-1906.  Chapel Hill, N.C.:  University of North Carolina Press, 2009.  Studies in Legal History.  488 pp.  (cloth, $60.00).

Lash, Kurt T.  The Lost History of the Ninth Amendment.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 2009.  224 pp.  (cloth, $75.00).

Lechelt, Jack.  The Vice Presidency in Foreign Policy: From Mondale to Cheney.  El Paso, Tex.:  LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2009.  Law and Society:  Recent Scholarship.  328 pp.  (cloth, $80.00). 

McMillen, Christian W.  Making Indian Law:  Hualapai Land Case and the Birth of Ethnohistory.  New Haven, Conn.:  Yale University Press, 2009.  304 pp.  (paper, $25.00).

Morris, Jeffrey Brandon.  Establishing Justice in Middle America:  A History of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.  Minneapolis:  University of Minnesota Press, 2009.  456 pp.  (paper, $39.95.).

Nelson, William E.  The Common Law of Colonial America, vol. 1:  The Chesapeake and New England, 1607-1660.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 2008.  216 pp.  (cloth, $35.00).

Ogletree, Charles and Austin Sarat.  When Law Fails:  Making Sense of Miscarriages of Justice.  New York:  New York University Press, 2009.  Charles Hamilton Houston Institute Series on Race and Justice.  320 pp.  (cloth, $70.00). 

Pascoe, Peggy.  What Comes Naturally:  Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 2009.  416 pp.  (cloth, $34.95).

Read, James H.  Majority Rule Versus Consensus:  The Political Thought of John C. Calhoun.  Lawrence, Kan.:  University Press of Kansas, 2009.  American Political Thought.  288 pp.  (cloth, $34.95).

Richards, David A.J.  Sodomy Cases:  Bowers v. Hardwick and Lawrence v. Texas.  Lawrence, Kan.:  University Press of Kansas, 2009.  232 pp.  Landmark Law Cases and American Society.  (cloth, $35.00, paper, $16.95).
 
Schafer, Judith Kelleher.  Brothels, Depravity, and Abandoned Women:  Illegal Sex in Antebellum New Orleans.  Baton Rouge, La.:  Louisiana State University Press, 2009.  232 pp.  (cloth, $32.50).

Sheehan, Colleen A.  James Madison and the Spirit of Republican Self-Government.  New York:  Cambridge University Press, 2009.  224 pp.  (paper, $22.99).

Shepard, Kris.  Rationing Justice:  Poverty Lawyers and Poor People in the Deep South.  Baton Rouge, La.:  Louisiana State University Press, 2009.  Making the Modern South.  408 pp.  (paper, $26.00).

Siegal, Barry.  Claim of Privilege:  A Mysterious Plane Crash, a Landmark Supreme Court Case, and the Rise of State Secrets.  New York:  HarperCollins, 2009.  400 pp.  (paper, $14.99).

Slauter, Eric.  The State as a Work of Art:  The Cultural Origins of the Constitution.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 2009.  392  pp.  (cloth, $40.00).

Sloan, Cliff and David McKean.  The Great Decision:  Jefferson, Adams, Marshall and the Battle for the Supreme Court.  New York:  Public Affairs, 2009.  288 pp.  (cloth, $27.95).

Smith, Robert Samuel.  Race, Labor, and Civil Rights:  Griggs versus Duke Power and the Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity.  Baton Rouge, La.:  Louisiana State University Press, 2008.  264 pp.  (cloth, $37.50).

Smith-Pryor, Elizabeth M.  Property Rites:  The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness.  Chapel Hill, N.C.:  University of North Carolina Press, 2009.  432 pp.  (cloth, $65.00, paper, $24.95).

Solomon, Stephen D.  Ellery’s Protest:  How One Young Man Defied Tradition and Sparked the Battle Over School Prayer.  Ann Arbor, Mich.:  University of Michigan Press, 2009.  440 pp.  (cloth, $29.95, paper, $24.95).

Strauss, Michael J.  The Leasing of Guantanamo Bay.  Westport, Conn.:  Praeger, 2009.  (cloth, $75.00).

Strebeigh, Fred.  Equal:  Women Reshape American Law.  New York:  Norton, 2009.  592 pp.  (cloth, $35.00).

Vandervelde, Lea.  Mrs. Dred Scott:  A Life on Slavery’s Frontier.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 2009.  496 pp.  (cloth, $34.95).

Vinzant, John H.  The Supreme Court’s Role in American Indian Policy.  El Paso, Tex.  LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2009.  Law and Society:  Recent Scholarship.  188 pp.  (cloth, $62.00).

Waldrep, Christopher. African Americans Confront Lynching: Strategies of Resistance from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Era.Lanham, Md.:  Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2008.  232 pp. (cloth, $34.95)

Watson, Bradley C.S.  Living Constitution, Dying Faith:  Progressivism and the New Science of Jurisprudence.  Wilmington, Del.:  Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2009.  250 pp.  (cloth, $20.00).

Watson, Bruce.  Sacco and Vanzetti:  The Men, the Murders, and the Judgment of Mankind.  New York:  Penguin, 2009.  448 pp.  (paper, $16.00).

Whittington, Keith E.  Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy:  The Presidency, the Supreme Court, and Constitutional Leadership in U.S. History.  Princeton, N.J.:  Princeton University Press, 2009.  Princeton Studies in American Politics.  320 pp.  (cloth, $37.50, paper, $22.95).

Whitman, James Q.  The Origins of Reasonable Doubt:  Theological Roots of the Criminal Trial.  New Haven, Conn.:  Yale University Press, 2009.  288 pp.  (cloth, $40.00).

(This list is compiled from publishers’ websites and Amazon.com and includes titles published between December 2008 and May 2009.  Authors are encouraged to submit information on upcoming books to huebner@rhodes.edu )