James F. Simon, Author . Simon & Schuster $26 (352p) ISBN 978-0-684-84870-9
Simon (a former Time
editor, now a law professor at NYU) examines the decades of conflict between the states' rights views of Thomas Jefferson and the federalist beliefs of John Marshall. In 1801, at the end of Adams's presidency, Marshall...
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James F. Simon, Author . Simon & Schuster $27 (324p) ISBN 978-0-7432-5032-0
This surprisingly taut and gripping book by NYU law professor Simon (What Kind of Nation
) examines the limits of presidential prerogative during the Civil War. Lincoln and Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney saw eye to eye on certain matters;...
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James F. Simon, Author Touchstone Books $10.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-72503-7
Supreme Court justices Black and Frankfurter subscribed to opposing political beliefs that first caused judicial animosity between them but led to mutual respect and, finally, friendship. Simon analyzes their backgrounds and important court cases in
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James F. Simon, Author Simon & Schuster $19.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-47797-4
From 1939, when he joined the Supreme Court, until his retirement in 1962, Justice Frankfurter often engaged in vociferous arguments with Justice Black over the interpretation of constitutional law. Simon reveals how their olympian arguments shaped...
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James F. Simon, Author Simon & Schuster $24.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-80293-0
``This is the story of a conservative judicial revolution that failed,'' declares Simon (The Antagonists), a professor at New York Law School, in this readable, sometimes intimate look at some key Supreme Court cases since the early 1980s. While the
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James F. Simon. Simon & Schuster, $27 (448p) ISBN 978-1-4165-7328-9
This dramatic history illuminates the uniquely American conflict between constitutional reverence and popular politics. New York Law School prof Simon (Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney) spotlights the struggle between a conservative Court under Chief
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James F. Simon. Liveright, $35 (464p) ISBN 978-0-87140-755-9
Simon (FDR and Chief Justice Hughes) uses twin biographies of Dwight D. Eisenhower and his Supreme Court chief justice Earl Warren to illuminate an often-overlooked period of legal history at the start of the civil rights movement. Simon’s major...
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