A classic collection of essays on great Supreme Court decisions in which twenty leading historians describe landmark cases that have altered the Constitution. From Chief Justice John Marshall to the present day, from the ‘Dred Scott ‘case to ‘Roe v. Wade, ‘the accounts found in this newly revised edition of ‘Quarrels That Have Shaped the Constitution, ‘which has also been expanded by the addition of five new essays, focus not only on the significance of the decisions themselves but on the personal conflicts that gave the justices the opportunity to act. People of every sort–smugglers and black slaves, bankers and butchers, ferryboat captains, rebels, sweated workers and great tycoons–make up the cast of characters in these dramas..
Category: North America
The Impending Crisis
Three Roads to the Alamo : The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis
‘Three Roads to the Alamo’ is the definitive book about the lives of David Crockett, James Bowie and William Barret Travis–the legendary frontiersmen and fighters who met their destiny at the Alamo in one of the most famous and tragic battles in American history–and about what really happened in that battle..
A History of the American People
George Washington’s War
The author of Delivered from Evil and None Died in Vain brings us this third dramatic narrative of a climactic event in American history. Starting with a history of the causes of the break between the colonies and England, Leckie traces the course of events to the British surrender at Yorktown–in solid history that reads like fiction..
Victorian America
This fourth volume in the Everyday Life In America series explores the daily life of Americans during the Victorian era. ‘A detailed, lively survey of the commonplace objects, events, experiences, products, and tastes that comprised America’s Victorian culture. . . . A splendid achievement’.–Kirkus Reviews. 43 pages of illustrations..