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Autore |
Yarbrough Tinsley E. <1941-> |
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Titolo |
Harry A. Blackmun [[electronic resource] ] : the outsider justice / / Tinsley E. Yarbrough |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008 |
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0-19-985157-3 |
1-281-15883-6 |
9786611158835 |
0-19-803238-2 |
1-4356-1948-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (414 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Judges - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-384) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Dayton's Bluff to Harvard -- Minnesota lawyer -- Circuit judge -- "A ton of bricks" -- The chambers -- The Minnesota twins -- Roe and beyond -- Liberal icon -- Changing the guard -- Citizen Blackmun. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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When appointed to the Supreme Court in 1970 by President Nixon, Harry A. Blackmun was seen as a quiet, safe choice to complement the increasingly conservative Court of his boyhood friend, Warren Burger. No one anticipated his seminal opinion championing abortion rights in Roe v. Wade, the most controversial ruling of his generation, which became the battle cry of both supporters and critics of judicial power and made Blackmun a liberal icon. Harry A. Blackmun: The Outsider Justice is Tinsley E. Yarbrough's penetrating account of one of the most outspoken and complicated figures on the Supreme |
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