Packing the Court
Subtitle: T/K
Publisher: Walker & Company
Published: December 23, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780802715890
Subjects: Americas (North Central South West Indies); History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies); History; History - General History; History: American
Description: This fascinating, behind-the-scenes story of Franklin Roosevelt's attempt to pack the Supreme Court recounts the major New Deal initiatives of FDR's first term and the rulings that overturned them, offering a reminder of the perennial temptation toward an imperial presidency that the founders had always feared.