Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court

Beginning in 1935, the Supreme Court's conservative majority left much of FDR's agenda in ruins. The pillars of the New Deal fell in short succession. It was not just the New Deal but democracy itself that stood on trial. In February 1937, Roosevelt struck back with an audacious plan to expand the Court to fifteen justices--and to pack the new seats with liberals who shared his belief in a living Constitution.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 03/14/2011
ISBN: 9780393338812
Pages: 656
Weight: 1.85lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.20d

Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 03/27/2011 pg. 28
New York Review of Books 12/08/2011 pg. 51