Robert H. Jackson
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-777843-2 (ISBN)
Until he joined the U.S. government in 1934, Robert H. Jackson had been a lawyer in private practice in Upstate New York who was admitted to the bar without going to college and after completing only one year of law school. Once part of FDR's administration, Jackson became, in rapid succession, United States Solicitor General and United States Attorney General, where he successfully defended New Deal programs before the Supreme Court, including the legality of Lend Lease, which helped the U.S. give war supplies to England in exchange for grants of territory and harbors. Jackson played a central role in formulating the arguments justifying a number of initiatives on constitutional grounds and in drafting the policy statements that accompanied them. In 1941, FDR nominated him to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, on which he served until his death in 1954, only months after his adding his vote to the unanimous decision in Brown V. Board of Education.
It was a meteoric rise for someone from outside the elite, and essentially self-trained. That didn't stop Jackson from becoming one of the most influential and independent-minded judges of his day, unafraid to question the status quo and leave his mark on a number of landmark cases, including West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnett, which guaranteed First Amendment rights by holding that students in public schools did not have to salute the flag or recite the Pledge of Allegiance. He dissented from the notorious decision in Korematsu v. U.S., which condoned the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War Two. To many, however, Jackson's most significant contribution was as chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg war trials following the war.
Drawing on Jackson's extensive personal papers in the Library of Congress and the Jackson Center, as well as a substantial oral history, G. Edward White's biography offers the first full-length portrait in decades of this fascinating and seminal figure.
G. Edward White is the David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and the author of twenty books and numerous articles on law and legal history, including the three-volume Law in American History and Oliver Wendell Holmes: Sage of the Supreme Court.
Preface
Introduction
Part One: From Jamestown to the Supreme Court, 1892--1941
1. Launching Himself
2. Family Matters
3. Going to Washington
4. Solicitor General and Attorney General
Part Two: To the Supreme Court and Nuremberg and Back, 1941--1954
5. The Supreme Court, 1941--1944
6. The Supreme Court, 1945
7. Nuremberg: Preparation
8. Nuremberg: The Trial
9. The Supreme Court, 1946--1952: First Amendment Cases
10. The Supreme Court, 1946--1952: Foreign Relations Cases
11. The Supreme Court, 1953 and 1954
Part Three: Assessments
12. The Writer
13. Summing Up
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 13.09.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 20 |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 163 x 226 mm |
| Gewicht | 680 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-777843-7 / 0197778437 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-777843-2 / 9780197778432 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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