{"product_id":"the-court-at-war-cliff-sloan-9781541736481","title":"The Court at War: Fdr, His Justices, and the World They Made","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe inside story of how one president forever altered the most powerful legal institution in the country--with consequences that endure today \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e By the summer of 1941, in the ninth year of his presidency, Franklin Roosevelt had molded his Court. He had appointed seven of the nine justices--the most by any president except George Washington--and handpicked the chief justice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e But the wartime Roosevelt Court had two faces. One was bold and progressive, the other supine and abject, cowed by the charisma of the revered president. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Court at War\u003c\/i\u003e explores this pivotal period. It provides a cast of unforgettable characters in the justices--from the mercurial, Vienna-born intellectual Felix Frankfurter to the Alabama populist Hugo Black; from the western prodigy William O. Douglas, FDR's initial pick to be his running mate in 1944, to Roosevelt's former attorney general and Nuremberg prosecutor Robert Jackson. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The justices' shameless capitulation and unwillingness to cross their beloved president highlight the dangers of an unseemly closeness between Supreme Court justices and their political patrons. But the FDR Court's finest moments also provided a robust defense of individual rights, rights the current Court has put in jeopardy. Sloan's intimate portrait is a vivid, instructive tale for modern times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cliff Sloan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1541736486\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781541736481\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e PublicAffairs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/19\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 512\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/31\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2023","brand":"Cliff Sloan","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44131957145855,"sku":"9781541736481","price":32.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c6e1c538-5343-455d-8e89-017397d3676e.jpg?v=1687477389","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-court-at-war-cliff-sloan-9781541736481","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}