Douglas Clouatre

Presidents and their Justices (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Presidents and their Justices offers an innovative look at the relationship between a president and the Supreme Court justices they appoint. Based on a 2005 survey of historians, lawyers, and political scientists that ranked presidents according to their Supreme Court appointments, the ratings offer a distinctive analysis of the relationship between presidents and the justices they appointed. Among these were Herbert Hoover, as the fifth-ranked president based on the Court nominees and Harry Truman, as one of the worst twentieth-century presidents for the justices he appointed. The book delves into presidential Court appointments and how a justice's career affects a president's legacy. Among the presidents studied are Warren Harding, Ulysses Grant, John Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and Franklin Roosevelt. The work is divided into sections of great presidents who made successful appointments, great presidents who failed in their appointments, and mediocre presidents who made successful appointments.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761879428
• Artikelnr.: 75139500

Autorenporträt

Douglas Clouatre is a political science and history instructor at Mid Plains Community College who writes on the Supreme Court and the American presidency. His works include contributions to The Leviathan's Choice, a reader on the death penalty, an American Government textbook and Gale's Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Introduction
Part 2 Section One:: Great Presidents, Great Justices
Chapter 3 Chapter 1 Presidential and Judicial Rankings past and present
Chapter 4 Chapter 2 George Washington, Franklin Roosevelt
Chapter 5 Chapter 3 Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan
Chapter 6 Chapter 4 Woodrow Wilson, Dwight Eisenhower
Part 7 Section Two: Successful Failures: Great Presidents Who Failed at
Their Judicial Nominations
Chapter 8 Chapter 5 Andrew Jackson, Harry Truman
Chapter 9 Chapter 6 James Polk, William McKinley
Chapter 10 Chapter 7 Thomas Jefferson, John Kennedy
Part 11 Section Three: Failed Successes: Failed Presidents Choose Great
Justices
Chapter 12 Chapter 8 John Adams, James Madison
Chapter 13 Chapter 9 Rutherford Hayes, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover
Chapter 14 Chapter 10 Ulysses Grant, Warren Harding
Chapter 15 Chapter 11 William Howard Taft, Richard Nixon
Part 16 Name Index
Part 17 Supreme Court Case Index