Washington's Heir will be accessible to a wide range of readers and of great interest to scholars of southern history, legal history, and the history of the federal government.
Gerard N. Magliocca is the Samuel R. Rosen Professor at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. He received his undergraduate degree at Stanford, his law degree at Yale, and spent one year as a law clerk for Judge Guido Calabresi on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Professor Magliocca is the author of four other books on constitutional law, including The Heart of the Constitution (Oxford, 2018).