Taft Court 2 Volume Paperback Set

Name: Taft Court 2 Volume Paperback Set
Brand: Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

The Taft Court 2 Volume Paperback Set: Volume 10Making Law for a Divided Nation, 19211930\nAuthor(s): Robert C. Post\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781009336239, 978-1009336239\nSynopsis\nThe Taft Court offers the definitive history of the Supreme Court from 1921 to 1930 when William Howard Taft was Chief Justice. Using untapped archival material, Robert C. Post engagingly recounts the ambivalent effort to create a modern American administrative state out of the institutional innovations of World War I. He shows how the Court sought to establish authoritative forms of constitutional interpretation despite the culture wars that enveloped prohibition and pervasive labor unrest. He explores in great detail how constitutional law responds to altered circumstances. The work provides comprehensive portraits of seminal figures such as Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and Louis Dembitz Brandeis. It describes William Howard Taft.