Making constitutional law : Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1961-1991

Tushnet, Mark V. 1945- (Author).

Summary: Following on Making Civil Rights Law, which covered Thurgood Marshall's career from 1936-1961, this book focuses on Marshall's career on the Supreme Court from 1961-1991, where he was first Afro-American Justice. The first book on Justice Thurgood Marshall's years on the Supreme Court based on a comprehensive review of the Supreme Court papers of Justices Marshall and William J. Brennan, this work describes Marshall's special approach to constitutional law in areas ranging from civil rights and the death penalty to abortion and poverty. It also describes the Supreme Court's operations during Marshall's tenure, the relations among the justices, and the particular roles played by Chief Justice Warren Burger, Justice Brennan, and Justice Antonin Scalia. The book locates the Supreme Court's actions from 1967 to 1991 in a broader historical and political context, explaining how Marshall's liberalism became increasingly isolated on a Court influenced by nation's drift in a more conservative direction.

Record details

ISBN: 9781280527722
ISBN: 1280527722
ISBN: 9781423738619
ISBN: 1423738616
ISBN: 0195093143
ISBN: 9780195093148
Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 246 pages)
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Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-236) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Prologue: "Things That We Knew but Would Rather Forget" -- "The Right Man and the Right Place": From the Second Circuit to the Supreme Court" -- "The Steam Roller Will Have to Grind Me Under": Marshall and the Brethren -- "Assumptions About How People Live": Working on the Supreme Court -- "Unless Our Children Begin to Learn Together": Desegregating the Schools -- "Vital Interests of a Powerless Minority": Equal Protection Theory -- "Now, When a State Acts to Remedy ... Discrimination": Affirmative Action -- "Compassion in Time of Crisis": The Death Penalty -- "We Are Dealing with a Man's Life": Administering the Death Penalty -- "Some Clear Promise of a Better World": The Jurisprudence of Thurgood Marshall -- Epilogue: "He Did What He Could with What He Had."
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.