Books by R. Kent Newmyer
“Kent Newmyer is a great judicial biographer who wrote what I think many people would regard as the greatest judicial biography, the Joseph Story biography…Story was a brilliant lawyer. He’s a founder of Harvard Law School. He taught at Harvard Law School. Some of the most interesting issues involving his time in the Court are slavery issues. Story, like most people in Massachusetts, was anti-slavery. He was responsible for deciding many cases involving slavery. As a judge who was personally opposed to slavery, he faced the problem that the Constitution was pretty clearly pro-slavery.” Read more...
The best books on The Supreme Court of the United States
Michael Klarman, Lawyer
“This is my favorite among the many Marshall biographies…Before he was Chief Justice, John Marshall was a politician from Virginia and a participant in the 1788 Virginia Convention that ratified the Constitution. He was a leading commercial lawyer in Richmond during the 1790s, then served one term in Congress. But he made a name for himself in that term, defending the Federalist Party’s policies. A large part of what he’s famous for is reading nationalism into the Constitution.” Read more...
The best books on The Supreme Court of the United States
Michael Klarman, Lawyer
Interviews where books by R. Kent Newmyer were recommended
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The American Supreme Court
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John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court
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Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story: Statesman of the Old Republic
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The Dred Scott Case
by Don Fehrenbacher -
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Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality
by Richard Kluger -
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Justice Lewis F. Powell: A Biography
by John Jeffries
The best books on The Supreme Court of the United States, recommended by Michael Klarman
The best books on The Supreme Court of the United States, recommended by Michael Klarman
It may be nice to think of America’s Supreme Court justices as neutral interpreters of the law, but the reality is that they are a reflection of the cultural and historical moment in which they operate. Legal scholar and author Michael Klarman, Kirkland & Ellis Professor at Harvard Law School, recommends the best books to learn more about the Supreme Court of the United States and its history.
