Shelf 7 of 7 · The Institution & Its People
How the Court Works & the Justices Collectively
The institution and its people in the round — the reference encyclopedias, the group portraits, and the great intertwined rivalries.
Cotter, Daniel S. The Chief Justices: The Seventeen Men of the Center Seat, Their Courts, and Their Times. 2019.
Urofsky, Melvin I., ed. Biographical Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court: The Lives and Legal Philosophies of the Justices. 2006.
Friedman, Leon, and Fred L. Israel, eds. The Justices of the United States Supreme Court: Their Lives and Major Opinions. 1969.
Lamb, Brian, Susan Swain, and Mark Farkas, eds. The Supreme Court: A C-SPAN Book Featuring the Justices in Their Own Words. 2010.
Rehnquist, William H. The Supreme Court: How It Was, How It Is.
Atkinson, David N. Leaving the Bench: Supreme Court Justices at the End. 1999.
Wellington, Harry H. Interpreting the Constitution: The Supreme Court and the Process of Adjudication.
Feldman, Noah. Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR’s Great Supreme Court Justices. 2010.
Simon, James F. The Antagonists: Hugo Black, Felix Frankfurter, and Civil Liberties in Modern America.
Ball, Howard, and Phillip J. Cooper. Of Power and Right: Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, and America’s Constitutional Revolution. 1992.
Hockett, Jeffrey D. New Deal Justice: The Constitutional Jurisprudence of Hugo L. Black, Felix Frankfurter, and Robert H. Jackson. 1996.
Mennel, Robert M., and Christine L. Compston, eds. Holmes and Frankfurter: Their Correspondence, 1912–1934. 1996.
Murphy, Bruce Allen. The Brandeis/Frankfurter Connection: The Secret Political Activities of Two Supreme Court Justices. 1982.
Mendelson, Wallace. Justices Black and Frankfurter: Conflict in the Court. 1961.
Urofsky, Melvin I. Dissent and the Supreme Court: Its Role in the Court’s History and the Nation’s Constitutional Dialogue. 2015.
Bickel, Alexander M. The Least Dangerous Branch: The Supreme Court at the Bar of Politics. 1962.
Hall, Kermit L., et al., eds. The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States. 2nd ed., 2005.
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