The Republic According to John Marshall Harlan
- ISBN-10
- 0807847895
- ISBN-13
- 9780807847893
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 286
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- UNC Press Books
- Author
- Linda Przybyszewski
Description
This book is an innovative combination of personal and judicial biography which illuminates and explains the contradictions and puzzles in Supreme Court Justice Harlan's judicial career.
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