New Books in U.S. Constitutional/Legal History
Fall Edition, 2010
(compiled by Timothy S. Huebner, Rhodes College)
Babson, Steve, David Riddle, and David Elsila. The Color of Law: Ernie Goodman, Detroit, and the Struggle for Labor and Civil Rights. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2010. 554 pp. (cloth, $24.95).
Bassani, Luigi Marco. Liberty, State, and Union: The Political Theory of Thomas Jefferson. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2010. 277 pp. (cloth, $35.00).
Biskupic, Joan. American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. 448 pp. (cloth, $28.00, paper, $16.00).
Bullock, Charles S. III and Ronald Keith Gaddie. The Triumph of Voting Rights in the South. Norman, Okl.: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009. 448 pp. (cloth, $55.00).
Burstein, Andrew and Nancy Isenberg. Madison and Jefferson. New York: Random House, 2010. 848 pp. (cloth, $35.00).
Burton, Orville Vernon and David O’Brien, eds. Remembering Brown at Fifty: The University of Illinois Commemorates Brown v. Board of Education. Champaign, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2010. 456 pp. (cloth, $75.00, paper, $35.00).
Bush, William S. Who Gets a Childhood? Race and Juvenile Justice in Twentieth-Century Texas. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 2010. 276 pp. (cloth, $59.95, paper, $24.95)
Carvin, Stephanie. Prisoners of America’s Wars: From the Early Republic to Guantanamo. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. 256 pp. (cloth, $32.50).
Collins, Ronald K. ed., The Fundamental Holmes: A Free Speech Chronicle and Reader. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 434 pp. (cloth, $95.00, paper, $29.99).
Feldman, Noah. Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR’s Supreme Court Justices. New York: Twelve, 2010. 528 pp. (cloth, $29.99)
Finley, Keith. Delaying the Dream: Southern Senators and the Fight Against Civil Rights, 1938-1965. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 2010. Paperback ed. 336 pp. (cloth, $40.00 paper, $24.95).
Friedman, Barry. The Will of the People: How Public Opinion Has Influenced the Supreme Court and Shaped the Meaning of the Constitution. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2010. 624 pp. (cloth, $35, paper, $18.00).
Gibson, Alan. Understanding the Founding: The Crucial Questions, 2d. ed. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 2010. 384pp. (cloth, $34.95, paper, $24.95).
Gordon, Sarah Barringer. The Spirit of the Law: Religious Voices and the Constitution in Modern America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010. 352 pp. (cloth, $29.95).
Greene, Jack P. The Constitutional Origins of the American Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. New Histories of American Law. 224 pp. (cloth, $80.00, paper, $21.99).
Greenhouse, Linda. Before Roe v. Wade: Voices that Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court's Ruling. New York: Kaplan Publishing, 2010. 352pp. (cloth, $26.00).
Hagan, John. Who Are the Criminals? The Politics of Crime Policy from the Age of Roosevelt to the Age of Reagan. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2010. 314 pp. (cloth, $29.95).
Hull, N.E.H. and Peter Charles Hoffer. Roe v. Wade: The Abortion Rights Controversy in American History, 2d. ed. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 2010. Landmark Law Cases and American Society. 384 pp. (cloth, $39.95, paper, $19.95).
Johnson, Herb. Gibbons v. Ogden: John Marshall, Steamboats, and the Commerce Clause. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 2010. Landmark Law Cases and American Society. 216 pp. (cloth, $34.95, paper, $17.95).
Kens, Paul. The Supreme Court under Morrison R. Waite, 1874-1888. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 2010. Chief Justiceships of the United States Supreme Court Herbert A. Johnson. 272 pp. (cloth, $49.95).
Konig, David Thomas, Paul Finkelman, and Christopher Alan Bracey. The Dred Scott Case: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Race and Law. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2010. 292 pp. (cloth, $54.95, paper, $26.95).
LaVergne, Gary M. Before Brown: Heman Marion Sweatt, Thurgood Marshall, and the Long Road to Justice. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 2010. 378 pp. (cloth, $26.95).
Lubet, Steven. Fugitive Justice: Runaways, Rescuers, and Slavery on Trial. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010. 384 pp. (cloth, $29.95).
McDonald, Laughlin. American Indians and The Fight for Equal Voting Rights. Norman, Okl.: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. 360 pp. (cloth, $55.00).
Maier, Pauline. Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010. 608 pp. (cloth, $30.00).
Maltz, Earl. Fugitive Slave on Trial: The Anthony Burns Case and Abolitionist Outrage. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 2010. Landmark Law Cases and American Society. 192 pp. (cloth, $34.95, paper, $17.95).
Oshinsky, David. Capital Punishment on Trial: Furman v. Georgia and the Death Penalty in Modern America. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 2010. 160 pp. (cloth, $29.95, paper, $14.95).
Parrish, Michael. Citizen Rauh: An American Liberal’s Life in Law and Politics. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, 2010. 352 pp. (cloth, $45.00).
Pruitt, Paul. Jr. Taming Alabama: Lawyers and Reformers, 1804-1929. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 2010. 200 pp. (cloth , $26.95).
Ragosta, John A. Wellspring of Liberty: How Virginia’s Religious Dissenters Helped Win the American Revolution and Secured Religious Liberty. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. 272 pp. (cloth, $34.95).
Rogers, Donald. Making Capitalism Safe: Work Safety and Health Regulation in America, 1880-1940. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2009. 296 pp. (cloth, $55.00).
Shone, Steve J. Lysander Spooner: American Anarchist. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010. 138 pp. (cloth, $55.00).
Shesol, Jeff. Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court. New York: W.W. Norton, 2011. 656 pp. (cloth, $27.95)
Stein, Marc Robert. Sexual Injustice: Supreme Court Decisions from Griswold to Roe. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. 384 pp. (cloth, $39.95).
Stern, Seth and Stephen Wermiel. Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. 688 pp. (cloth, $35.00).
Strum, Philippa. Mendez v. Westminster: School Desegregation and Mexican-American Rights. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 2010. Landmark Law Cases and American Society. 192 pp. (cloth, $34.95, paper, $16.95).
Tsesis, Alexander, ed., The Promises of Liberty: The History and Contemporary Relevance of the Thirteenth Amendment. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. 368 pp. (cloth, $60.00).
Van Cleve, George William. A Slaveholders’ Union: Slavery, Politics, and the Constitution in the EarlyAmerican Republic. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2010. 388 pp. (cloth, $39.00).
VanderVelde, Lea. Mrs. Dred Scott: A Life on Slavery’s Frontier. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Paperback ed. 496 pp. (paper, $24.95).
Waldrep, Christopher. Jury Discrimination: The Supreme Court, Public Opinion, and a Grassroots Fight for Racial Equality in Mississippi. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 2010. Studies in the Legal History of the South. 328 pp. (cloth, $44.95).
Weitz, Mark. The Sleepy Lagoon Murder Case: Race Discrimination and Mexican-American Rights. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 2010. 232 pp. (cloth, $34.95, paper, $17.95).
Welke, Barbara. Law and the Borders of Belonging in the Long Nineteenth-Century United States. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. New Histories of American Law. 256 pp. (cloth, $73.99, paper, $19.99).
White, G. Edward. Patterns of American Legal Thought. New Orleans, La.: Quid Pro, 2010. Paperback ed. 338 pp. (paper, $12.99).
Wilf, Steven Robert. Law’s Imagined Republic: Popular Politics and Criminal Justice in Revolutionary America. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 248 pp. (cloth, $85.00).
Work, L. Susan. The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma: A Legal History. Norman, Okl.: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. 378 pp. (cloth, $45.00).
Zelden, Charles. Bush v. Gore: Exposing the Hidden Crisis in American Democracy. Abridged and updated. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 2010. Landmark Law Cases and American Society. 312 pp. (paper, $19.95).
(This list is compiled from publishers’ website, Amazon.com, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. The list includes titles published between June 2010 and November 2010. Authors are encouraged to submit information on forthcoming books to huebner@rhodes.edu.)
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