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)

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。

This book, authored by two leading scholars of the Supreme Court and its policy making, systematically presents and validates the use of the attitudinal model to explain and predict Supreme Court decision making. In the process, it critiques the two major alternative models of Supreme Court decision making and their major variants: the legal and rational choice. Using the US Su...(展开全部)

For decades, James MacGregor Burns has been one of the great masters of the study of power and leadership in America. Now he turns his eye to an institution of government that he believes has become more powerful, and more partisan, than the founding fathers ever intended—the Supreme Court. Much as we would like to believe that the Court remains aloof from ideological politics,...(展开全部)

From renowned political theorist James MacGregor Burns, an incisive critique of the overreaching power of an ideological Supreme Court For decades, Pulitzer Prize-winner James MacGregor Burns has been one of the great masters of the study of power and leadership in America. In Packing the Court , he turns his eye to the U.S. Supreme Court, an institution that he believes ...(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)

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)

-- An amalgam of facts and fictions, dialogues and soliloquies, rants and declamations, I the Supreme details the history and mythology of Paraguay's first dictator, Jose Gaspar Rodriguez de Francia, self-professed Dictator for Life.-- From 1947-1989 Roa Bastos lived in forced exile from Paraguay and was, during the rule of General Alfredo Stroessner, one of three citizens forb...(展开全部)

In this important book, Michael J. Perry examines three of the most disputed constitutional issues of our time: capital punishment, state laws banning abortion, and state policies denying the benefit of law to same-sex unions. The author, a leading constitutional scholar, explains that if a majority of the justices of the Supreme Court believes that a law violates the Constitut...(展开全部)