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FDR and Chief Justice Hughes
The President, the Supreme Court, and the Epic Battle Over the New Deal
By Simon, James F.
- ISBN
- 9781416573289
- Publisher
- S. & S.
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Reviewed on February 15, 2012 | Social Sciences
In this joint biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Charles Evans Hughes, who served as chief justice from 1930 to 1941, Simon (Martin Professor of Law, New York Law Sch.) thoroughly examines the personal and professional lives of both figures, focusing on the Supreme Court's opposition to the New Deal in its early years and Roosevelt's attempts to circumvent it. The court-packing plan that Roosevelt proposed would have increased ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
