{"product_id":"nixons-court-kevin-j-mcmahon-9780226561196","title":"Nixon's Court: His Challenge to Judicial Liberalism and Its Political Consequences","description":"\u003cp\u003eMost analysts have deemed Richard Nixon's challenge to the judicial liberalism of the Warren Supreme Court a failure--\"a counterrevolution that wasn't.\" \u003ci\u003eNixon's Court \u003c\/i\u003eoffers an alternative assessment. Kevin J. McMahon reveals a Nixon whose public rhetoric was more conservative than his administration's actions and whose policy towards the Court was more subtle than previously recognized. Viewing Nixon's judicial strategy as part political and part legal, McMahon argues that Nixon succeeded substantially on both counts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany of the issues dear to social conservatives, such as abortion and school prayer, were not nearly as important to Nixon. Consequently, his nominations for the Supreme Court were chosen primarily to advance his \"law and order\" and school desegregation agendas--agendas the Court eventually endorsed. But there were also political motivations to Nixon's approach: he wanted his judicial policy to be conservative enough to attract white southerners and northern white ethnics disgruntled with the Democratic party but not so conservative as to drive away moderates in his own party. In essence, then, he used his criticisms of the Court to speak to members of his \"Silent Majority\" in hopes of disrupting the long-dominant New Deal Democratic coalition. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor McMahon, Nixon's judicial strategy succeeded not only in shaping the course of constitutional law in the areas he most desired but also in laying the foundation of an electoral alliance that would dominate presidential politics for a generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kevin J. McMahon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226561194\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226561196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/31\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2012","brand":"Kevin J. McMahon","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086417637631,"sku":"9780226561196","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0758772b-9fd5-4339-a27f-f7bbf42998b1.jpg?v=1769094555","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/nixons-court-kevin-j-mcmahon-9780226561196","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}