Rich in detail and peppered with intriguing insights, Kalman's study will benefit legal historians, political scientists, court watchers, and others who find themselves wondering what history can teach us about the politics of the present.
Laura Kalman is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, a member of the California Bar, and past president of the American Society for Legal History. She is the author of Right Star Rising: A New Politics, 1974-1980, Yale Law School and the Sixties: Revolt and Reverberations, The Strange Career of Legal Liberalism, Abe Fortas: A Biography, and Legal Realism at Yale,
1927-1960.