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| Named Person: | Franklin D Roosevelt |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Marian C McKenna |
| ISBN: | 0823221547 9780823221547 |
| OCLC Number: | 49355855 |
| Description: | xxvi 612 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The fifty-fourth attorney general -- The New Deal in court -- Black Monday -- The fate of the AAA -- Secrets and stratagems -- Toward a constitutional crisis -- Landslide -- Roosevelt's revenge -- A storm of fury -- Some bad miscalculations -- The Senate hearings -- No real mischief -- Searching for compromise -- Showdown -- Aftermath. |
| Responsibility: | Marian C. McKenna. |
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Abstract:
This is a critical, revisionist portrayal of Franklin D. Roosevelt's personal role in initiating, with the advice of his attorney general, Homer S. Cummings, a "reorganization of the federal judiciary", or what in fact constituted a blatant attempt to "pack" the Supreme Court in 1937.
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.,."McKenna's thoroughness and her thoughtful reevaluation of the court-packing controversy should ensure that Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Constitutional War will become one of, if not the standard texts in the field on this subject." Read more...
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