THE SUPREME COURT IN UNITED STATES HISTORY

2 volumes. Early Printing. Illustrated with full page plates throughout the two volumes. Thick, tall 8vo, publisher's original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine panels. xvi, [2], 814; x, [2], 812 pp. A fine copy internally, fresh and clean throughout, the bindings strong and tight and very well preserved with light mellowing to the spine panels.

Edizione: an important work, very readable, still referred to and still in print. warren was an american lawyer and legal scholar who won a pulitzer prize for this fine book. his most famous case defended james michael curley, the boston mayor and massachusetts governor, who was convicted for conspiracy to defraud the united states for taking the civil service examination for a constituent. <br> in addition to law review articles, warren published two encyclopedic books which became the starting point for american legal historians for decades: history of the harvard law school and of early legal conditions in america (1909) and a history of the american bar. publication of this history of the united states supreme court cemented warren's reputation as a legal scholar, and it won the pulitzer prize for history in 1923. justice louis brandeis cited warren's work, congress, the constitution, and the supreme court.in erie railroad co. v. tompkins (1938), which cut back on forum-shopping by wealthy litigants using the old case of swift v. tyson (1842).