The Pursuit of Justice: Supreme Court Decisions That Shaped America

Author/Contributor(s):	Hall, Kermit L
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Date:	12/01/2006
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

This book analyzes the thirty cases that, in the opinion of U.S. Supreme Court justices and leading civics educators and legal historians, are the most important for American citizens to understand. Each chapter includes a narrative account, focusing on leading personalities involved in the case(s), and one or more primary source documents relevant to the case. An appendix summarizes an additional 100 cases that are significant to American history and included in state history and civics standards.