Lincoln's Supreme Court
By: by David M. Silver.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Urbana, [Ill.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: United States. Supreme Court -- History.; Constitutional history -- United States.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Description: More than four decades after its initial publication this book is still the only one to focus exclusively on President Abraham Lincoln's role in modifying the Supreme Court membership to secure the power he needed to save the Union.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-249) and index.
Originally published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1956.
"An Illinois reissue from the University of Illinois Press"--P. [4] of cover.