Shelf 5 of 8 · The Senate’s Graveyard

Nomination & Confirmation Battles

The Senate’s graveyard and its spectacles — from Bork through Thomas–Hill to Kavanaugh.

The reading list — 31 books

Tribe, Laurence H. God Save This Honorable Court: How the Choice of Supreme Court Justices Shapes Our History. 1985.

Bronner, Ethan. Battle for Justice: How the Bork Nomination Shook America. 1989.

Greenburg, Jan Crawford. Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court. 2007.

Simon, Paul. Advice & Consent: Clarence Thomas, Robert Bork, and the Intriguing History of the Supreme Court’s Nomination Battles. 1992.

Mayer, Jane, and Jill Abramson. Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas. 1994.

Danforth, John C. Resurrection: The Confirmation of Clarence Thomas. 1994.

Hill, Anita. Speaking Truth to Power. 1997.

Phelps, Timothy M., and Helen Winternitz. Capitol Games: Clarence Thomas, Anita Hill, and the Story of a Supreme Court Nomination. 1992.

Brock, David. The Real Anita Hill: The Untold Story. 1993.

Morrison, Toni, ed. Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality. 1992.

Hemingway, Mollie, and Carrie Severino. Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court. 2019.

Pogrebin, Robin, and Kate Kelly. The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation. 2019.

Lovelace, Ryan. Search and Destroy: Inside the Campaign against Brett Kavanaugh. 2019.

Shogan, Robert. A Question of Judgment: The Fortas Case and the Struggle for the Supreme Court. 1972.

Haygood, Wil. Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America. 2015.

Glen, Patrick J. “Harvard and Yale Ascendant: The Legal Education of the Justices From Holmes to Kagan” — UCLA Law Review Discourse 58: 129–154. 2010.

Abraham, Henry J. Justices, Presidents, and Senators: A History of the U.S. Supreme Court Appointments from Washington to Bush II. 2008.

Blaustein, Albert P., and Roy M. Mersky. The First One Hundred Justices: Statistical Studies on the Supreme Court of the United States. 1978.

Yalof, David Alistair. Pursuit of Justices: Presidential Politics and the Selection of Supreme Court Nominees. 1999.

Goldman, Sheldon. Picking Federal Judges: Lower Court Selection from Roosevelt through Reagan. 1997.

Maltese, John Anthony. The Selling of Supreme Court Nominees. 1995.

Silverstein, Mark. Judicious Choices: The New Politics of Supreme Court Confirmations. 2007.

Epstein, Lee, and Jeffrey A. Segal. Advice and Consent: The Politics of Judicial Appointments. 2005.

Gibson, James L., and Gregory A. Caldeira. Citizens, Courts, and Confirmations: Positivity Theory and the Judgments of the American People. 2009.

Stone, Geoffrey R. “Understanding Supreme Court Confirmations” — Supreme Court Review 2010: 381–467. 2010.

Comiskey, Michael. Seeking Justices: The Judging of Supreme Court Nominees. 2004.

Ewing, Cortez A. M. The Judges of the Supreme Court, 1789–1937: A Study of Their Qualifications. 1938.

Frank, John P. Clement Haynsworth, the Senate, and the Supreme Court. 1991.

Davis, Richard. Electing Justice: Fixing the Supreme Court Nomination Process. 2005.

Gitenstein, Mark. Matters of Principle: An Insider's Account of America's Rejection of Robert Bork's Nomination to the Supreme Court. 1992.

Goings, Kenneth W. The NAACP Comes of Age: The Defeat of Judge John J. Parker. 1990.

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