Franklin Roosevelt and the great constitutional war
Subtitle: the court-packing crisis of 1937
By: Marian C. McKenna.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 612
Subjects: United States. Supreme Court -- History.; Judges -- Selection and appointment -- United States -- History.; United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.
Description: "This new history of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the "Great Constitutional War" is a critical, revisionist portrayal of FDR's personal role in initiating, on the advice of his attorney general, Homer S. Cummings, a "reorganization of the federal judiciary," or what in fact constituted a bald-faced attempt to "pack" the Supreme Court in 1937."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.[565]-589) and index.
Table of contents: title: The fifty-fourth attorney general; title: The New Deal in court; title: Black Monday; title: The fate of the AAA; title: Secrets and stratagems; title: Toward a constitutional crisis; title: Landslide; title: Roosevelt's revenge; title: A storm of fury; title: Some bad miscalculations; title: The Senate hearings; title: No real mischief; title: Searching for compromise; title: Showdown; title: Aftermath.