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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “williamjames hull hoffer”
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  • The Sick Chicken Case

    The US Supreme Court and the New Deal

    by Williamjames Hull Hoffer ...
    Series series Landmark Law Cases and American Society
    The defining legal history of a landmark decision by the US Supreme Court that gutted a key piece of FDR’s New Deal.On May 25, 1935, in the midst of the Great Depression, the US Supreme Court handed down a series of decisions that dealt mortal blows to New Deal legislation and presidential initiatives—a day known to New Dealers as Black Monday. The most significant of these decisions was A.L.A. ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Caning of Charles Sumner

    Honor, Idealism, and the Origins of the Civil War

    by Williamjames Hull Hoffer ...
    Series series Witness to History
    A signal, violent event in the history of the United States Congress, the caning of Charles Sumner on the Senate floor embodied the complex North-South cultural divide of the mid-nineteenth century. Williamjames Hull Hoffer's vivid account of the brutal act demonstrates just how far the sections had drifted apart and explains why the coming war was so difficult to avoid.Sumner, a noted ... Read more

    $21.29 USD

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Race and Inequality in Jim Crow America

    by WilliamJames Hull Hoffer ...
    Series series Landmark Law Cases and American Society
    Six decades before Rosa Parks boarded her fateful bus, another traveler in the Deep South tried to strike a blow against racial discrimination—but ultimately fell short of that goal, leading to the Supreme Court’s landmark 1896 decision in Plessy v. Ferguson. Now Williamjames Hull Hoffer vividly details the origins, litigation, opinions, and aftermath of this notorious case.In response to the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • To Enlarge the Machinery of Government

    Congressional Debates and the Growth of the American State, 1858–1891

    by Williamjames Hull Hoffer ...
    Series series Reconfiguring American Political History
    How did the federal government change from the weak apparatus of the antebellum period to the large, administrative state of the Progressive Era? To Enlarge the Machinery of Government explores the daily proceedings of the U.S. House and Senate from 1858 to 1891 to find answers to this question.Through close readings of debates centered around sponsorship, supervision, and standardization recorded ... Read more

    $51.69 USD

  • The Supreme Court

    An Essential History, Second Edition

    by Peter Charles Hoffer, Williamjames Hull Hoffer, N. E. H. Hull ...
    For more than two centuries, the U.S. Supreme Court has provided a battleground for nearly every controversial issue in our nation’s history. Now a veteran team of talented historians—including the editors of the acclaimed Landmark Law Cases and American Society series—have updated the most readable, astute single-volume history of this venerated institution with a new chapter on the Roberts Court ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Clamor of Lawyers

    The American Revolution and Crisis in the Legal Profession

    by Peter Charles Hoffer, William James Hull Hoffer ...
    The Clamor of Lawyers explores a series of extended public pronouncements that British North American colonial lawyers crafted between 1761 and 1776. Most, though not all, were composed outside of the courtroom and detached from on-going litigation. While they have been studied as political theory, these writings and speeches are rarely viewed as the work of active lawyers, despite the fact that ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Federal Courts

    An Essential History

    by Peter Charles Hoffer, Williamjames Hull Hoffer, N.E.H Hull ...
    Narrated by Adam Verner ...

    Unabridged

    22 hours 50 min

    There are moments in American history when all eyes are focused on a federal court: when its bench speaks for millions of Americans, and when its decision changes the course of history. More often, the story of the federal judiciary is simply a tale of hard work: of finding order in the chaotic system of state and federal law, local custom, and contentious lawyering. The Federal Courts is a story ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Abortion Rights Controversy in America

    A Legal Reader

    Edited by N. E. H. Hull, Williamjames Hoffer, Peter Charles Hoffer ...
    Beginning with the introduction of abortion law in the nineteenth century, this reader includes important documents from nearly two hundred years of debate over abortion. These legal briefs, oral arguments, court opinions, newspaper reports, opinion pieces, and contemporary essays are introduced with headnotes that place them in historical context. Chapters cover the birth control movement, ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • Child Labor in America

    The Epic Legal Struggle to Protect Children

    by John A. Fliter ...
    Finalist: Langum Prize in American Legal HistoryChild labor law strikes most Americans as a fixture of the country’s legal landscape, involving issues settled in the distant past. But these laws, however self-evidently sensible they might seem, were the product of deeply divisive legal debates stretching over the past century—and even now are subject to constitutional challenges. Child Labor in ... Read more

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  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to U.S. Government and Politics

    by Franco Scardino ...
    The governed must know their governmentUnderstanding how our government functions and the political forces that influence it is vital for all Americans. As a comprehensive overview and history of the subject, this book is designed to help anyone interested in learning about our government and the origins of its complex inner workings, our political system, and key elements that have affected our ... Read more

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  • We the People

    A History of the U.S. Constitution

    by Jill Lepore ...
    **WINNER OF THE 2026 PULITZER PRIZE FOR HISTORYONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2025NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEARNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post, New Yorker, Smithsonian, Bookpage, and the Chicago Public LibraryLonglisted for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction"[Lepore's] 15th book, <em... ... Read more

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