"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。

-- 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)

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)

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)

戴维·奥布赖恩（David M.O’Brien）：声名卓著的美国最高法院研究专家，弗吉尼亚大学政府与外交学讲座教授，曾深入最高法院，担任司法研究员和研究助理两年。编辑出版有两卷本的《宪法法与宪法政治》（Constitutional Law and Politics，第6版），参与编写了《民治政府》（Government By the People，第19-21版）。 胡晓进：中国政法大学讲师，南京大学历史学博士，长于美国史研究，代表作品有《在宪政舞台上：美国最高法院的历史轨迹》（合著），《美国最高法院》（合译）、《政治和命运》（合译）。 任东来：美国宪政史、中美关系史专家，南京大学-霍普金斯大学中美文化研究中心教授，代表作品有《美国宪政历程：塑造美国的25 个司法大案》、《在宪政舞台上：美国最高法院的历史轨迹》等。

杰弗里·图宾，1986年毕业于哈佛法学院，担任过纽约市布鲁克林区联邦助理检察官。现为《纽约客》杂志职业撰稿人，CNN资深法律评论员，是美国最出色的法律记者之一，著有一系列法律题材畅销书，包括：Too Close to Call: The Thirty-Six-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election（2002）；A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President（2000）；The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson（1997）； Opening Arguments: A Young Lawyer’s First Case—United...(展开全部)

In The Nine , acclaimed journalist Jeffrey Toobin takes us into the chambers of the most important—and secret—legal body in our country, the Supreme Court, revealing the complex dynamic among the nine people who decide the law of the land. An institution at a moment of transition, the Court now stands at a crucial point, with major changes in store on such issues as abortion, ...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin takes you into the chambers of the most important—and secret—legal body in our country, the Supreme Court, and reveals the complex dynamic among the nine people who decide the law of the land. Just in time for the 2008 presidential election—where the future of the Court will be at stake—Toobin reveals an institution at a moment of tran...(展开全部)