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Author Burns, James MacGregor.

Title Packing the court : the rise of judicial power and the coming crisis of the Supreme Court / James MacGregor Burns.

Imprint Old Saybrook, CT : Tantor Audio, ℗2009.

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 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  SPO CD 347.732 BUR    Check Shelf
Description 8 audio discs (approximately 9 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Note Title from sell sheet.
Performer Read by Norman Dietz.
Note Unabridged.
Compact discs.
Duration: 9:30:00.
Summary From renowned political theorist and Pulitzer Prize winner James MacGregor Burns comes an illuminating critique of how an unstable, unaccountable, and frequently partisan Supreme Court has come to wield more power than the Founding Fathers ever intended.
Contents The first courtpackers -- John Marshall's Constitution -- The Dred decision -- War powers: Lincoln vs. Taney -- Deconstruction: Republican reversal -- A court for the gilded age -- The triumphant Mr. Taft -- FDR's boldest gamble -- "Wild horses" : the Roosevelt court -- Leadership: the Warren court -- Republicans as activists -- Hard right: the Cheney-Bush court -- Ending judicial supremacy -- The justices of the Supreme Court.
Subject United States. Supreme Court -- History.
Political questions and judicial power -- United States.
Judges -- Selection and appointment -- United States.
United States. Supreme Court. (OCoLC)fst00529481
Judges -- Selection and appointment. (OCoLC)fst00984544
Political questions and judicial power. (OCoLC)fst01069674
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Audiobooks collection -- Nonfiction.
Audiobooks. (OCoLC)fst01726208
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Audiobooks.
Added Author Dietz, Norman. Narrator.
ISBN 9781400112111
1400112117
9781400142118
1400142113
9781400162116
1400162114
Music No. n.n. Tantor Audio
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