The American Supreme Court
Robert G. McCloskey.
- 4th ed. rev. by Sanford Levinson.
- Chicago University of Chicago Press 2005.
- xv, 331 p. 24 cm.
- The Chicago history of American civilization .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-313) and index.
The genesis and nature of judicial power -- The establishment of the right to decide : 1789-1810 -- The Marshall Court and the shaping of the nation : 1810-1835 -- The court under Taney : the natural history of judicial prestige -- Constitutional evolution in the Gilded Age : 1865-1900 -- The judiciary and the regulatory state : 1900-1937 -- The modern court and postwar America : 1937-1959 -- Civil liberties, civil rights, and the Supreme Court -- Judicial monitoring of the new American welfare state.