The History of the Supreme Court of the United States. Vol. 9, The..

1984. New York: Macmillan Pub Co., 1984. 1st edition. New York: Macmillan Pub Co., 1984. 1st edition. Bickel, Alexander M. Schmidt Jr, Benno C. The Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise. The History of the Supreme Court of the United States. The Judiciary and Responsible Government 1910-1921. Volume IX. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., [1984]. First edition. xiv, 1041 pp. Illustrated. Publisher's green and maroon cloth hardcover, with gilt stamped spine and front cover. Top edge gilt, deckled fore edge. A fine copy. $195. * First edition. This book concerns the great judicial controversies of the Progressive Era, in which some of the most brilliant Justices -- Holmes, Brandeis, Hughes, and so on -- grappled with economic and political issues of unprecedented importance. The book shows how the Supreme Court both shaped and reflected the momentous changes in American society of the first two decades in the 20th century and sets the Supreme Court in the midst of the political, economic, and social turmoil of one of the most important periods in American history. Contents 1. Mr Taft rehabilitates the court; 2. The rule of reason; 3. The fate of social legislation, 1910-14; 4. Appointment cycles; 5. The fate of social legislation, 1914-21: federal; 6. The fate of social legislation, 1914-21: state; 7. Federal administration and the federal specialties; 8. The heyday of Jim Crow; 9. The Peonage cases: the Supreme Court and the 'wheel of servitude'; 10. Black disenfranchisement from the KKK to the Grandfather Clause. (Inventory #: 81616)