Picking federal judges
Subtitle: lower court selection from Roosevelt through Reagan
By: Sheldon Goldman.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 428
Subjects: Judges -- Selection and appointment -- United States -- History; District courts -- Officials and employees -- Selection and appointment -- United States -- History
Description: In this landmark book, a leading authority on lower federal court judicial selections tells the riveting story of how nine presidents over a period of fifty-six years have chosen federal judges. Sheldon Goldman has interviewed participants, and he has mined published and unpublished government documents and archives, along with memoranda, letters, and other documents in the papers of every president from Franklin Roosevelt through Ronald Reagan, to bring to life the judicial selection process. His book is filled with richly drawn and dramatic accounts of each president's use of judicial appointments to further policy, partisan, and personal agendas. Goldman analyzes political and social changes that have occurred over the years and the impact of those changes on the profile of those selected for the bench.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 370-411) and index.