The Warren Court and the Pursuit of Justice: A Critical Issue

A great introduction to the Warren Court. If you are looking research this era of the Supreme Court,this is surely the book to start at.

It was a an excellent, short version of the intrigues of the time - Brown v Board of Education, One man, one vote, McCarthy, and the courage that it took to see them through.

Professor Horowitz provides a very accessible accounting of the Warren Court's impact on America and American jurisprudence. For those with legal training, this short history puts all the doctrines learned in law school-the void for vagueness application to the First Amendment, the Carolene Products Footnote Four analysis-into a tidy, compact context. For the non-lawyer, Horowitz avoids the legalese and shows how the Warren Court rulings affected the course of American events. Horowitz examines the court's impact in several areas: civil rights, democractic principles of governance, free speech, and the incorporation doctrine as applied to criminal procedure. Horowitz truly has admiration for his subject, but that admiration is not unqualified, and he takes the court to task for buckling under McCarthyism and for not standing up for its First Amendment principles, although Horowitz clearly blames one justice, Justice Frankfurter, for the court's reluctance to take on McCarthy. An excellent summary of the Warren Court, its decisions, and the justices who together made up its collective personality.

Interesting book on the judicial court and how it came about for todays laws.