When he resigned last June, Justice Stevens was the third longest serving Justice in American history (1975-2010) - only Justice William O. Douglas, whom Stevens succeeded and Stephen Field have served on the Court for a longer time. In Five Chiefs, Justice Stevens captures the inner workings of the Supreme Court via his personal experiences with the five Chief Justices - Fred ...(展开全部)

When he resigned last June, Justice Stevens was the third longest serving Justice in American history (1975-2010) - only Justice William O. Douglas, whom Stevens succeeded and Stephen Field have served on the Court for a longer time. In Five Chiefs, Justice Stevens captures the inner workings of the Supreme Court via his personal experiences with the five Chief Justices - Fred ...(展开全部)

关于作者 约翰•保罗•斯蒂文斯 约翰•保罗•斯蒂文斯，美国最高法院第101位大法官。他1920年出生于芝加哥。1941年毕业于芝加哥大学，“二战”期间在美国海军服役，从事密码破译，并获得铜星勋章。战后在西北大学法学院学习，担任过威利•拉特里奇大法官的法官助理。后从事律师工作，兼任众议院司法委员会垄断权力研究小组委员会法律顾问和司法部国家反垄断法研究委员会法律顾问。1970年被理查德•尼克松总统任命为联邦第七巡回上诉法院法官，1975年被杰拉尔德•福特总统任命为联邦最高法院大法官，2010年6月退休。 关于译者 何 帆 1978年生，最高人民法院法官，业余从事法政作品著译。著有《大法官说了算：美国司法观察笔记》等。译有《九人：美国最高法院风云》《法官能为民主做什么》《批评官员的尺度：〈纽约时报〉诉警察局长沙利文案》《谁来守护公正：美国最高法院大法官访...(展开全部)

When he resigned in June 2010, Justice John Paul Stevens was the third-longest-serving Supreme Court justice in American history. As a lawyer and on the court, he worked with five chief justices: as a law clerk during Fred Vinson's tenure, a practicing lawyer when Earl Warren was chief, a circuit judge and junior justice during Warren Burger's term, a contemporary colleague of ...(展开全部)

杰夫·谢索 Jeff Shesol 美国知名历史学家、政治评论家。曾于1998至2001年间担任白宫撰稿人，后任教于普林斯顿大学，现为West Wing Writers组织的联合创始人。杰夫·谢索是公认的“讲故事绝佳高手”，文章常见于《纽约客》《纽约时报》《华盛顿邮报》等著名媒体，美国前总统比尔·克林顿称其为“他那一代人中最雄辩的历史学家之一”。《至高权力》是他最为知名的作品，出版后广受好评，得到多家学术期刊及媒体推荐。 陈平 北京工业大学文法学部讲师，法学博士，研究方向为美国社会文化。

"A stunning work of history."—Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of No Ordinary Time and Team of Rivals Beginning in 1935, the Supreme Court's conservative majority left much of FDR's agenda in ruins. The pillars of the New Deal fell in short succession. It was not just the New Deal but democracy itself that stood on trial. In February 1937, Roosevelt struck back with an audaci...(展开全部)

著者：[美国] 琳达•格林豪斯 1947年生，《纽约时报》资深法政记者。先后毕业于哈佛大学拉德克利夫学院（1968）、耶鲁法学院（1978）。在《纽约时报》从事过30年联邦最高法院新闻报道（1978－2008）。1998年获普利策奖，是美国最杰出的法律记者之一。2008年退休后，在耶鲁法学院执教，并为《纽约时报》网站撰写双周专栏。著有Becoming Justice Blackmun：Harry Blackmun's Supreme Court Journey（2005）、Before Roe v. Wade: Voices That Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court’s Ruling（与列娃•西格尔合著，2010）。 译者：何帆 1978年生，最高人民法院法官，业余从事法政作品著...(展开全部)

For 30 years, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Linda Greenhouse chronicled the activities of the U.S. Supreme Court and its justices as a correspondent for the New York Times. In this Very Short Introduction, she draws on her deep knowledge of the court's history and of its written and unwritten rules to show readers how the Supreme Court really works. Greenhouse offers a fasc...(展开全部)

Abortion, affirmative action, the "right to die", pornography and free speech, homosexulaity and sex discrimination; as eagerly as the Supreme Court's rulings on these issues are awaited and as intently as they are studied, they never seem to settle anything once and for all. But something is settled in the process - in the incremental approach - as Cass Sunstein argues in this...(展开全部)

Abortion, affirmative action, the "right to die", pornography and free speech, homosexulaity and sex discrimination; as eagerly as the Supreme Court's rulings on these issues are awaited and as intently as they are studied, they never seem to settle anything once and for all. But something is settled in the process - in the incremental approach - as Cass Sunstein argues in this...(展开全部)