The Most Dangerous Branch
Inside the Supreme Court in the Age of Trump
In the bestselling tradition of The Nine and The Brethren, The Most Dangerous Branch takes us inside the secret world of the Supreme Court. David A. Kaplan, the former legal affairs editor of Newsweek, shows how the justices subvert the role of the other branches of government-and how we've come to accept it at our peril.Never before has the Court been more central in American life. It is now the nine justices who too often decide the biggest issues of our time-from abortion and same-sex marriage to gun control, campaign finance, and voting rights. The Court is so crucial that many voters in 2016 made their choice based on whom they thought t…
Mehr
CHF 19.35
Preise inkl. MwSt. und Versandkosten (Portofrei ab CHF 40.00)
Versandkostenfrei
Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-5247-5992-6
- EAN: 9781524759926
- Produktnummer: 25460512
- Verlag: Crown
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 480 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 21'104 KB
- Abbildungen: 1 8-PG 4C INSERT
Über den Autor
David A. Kaplan was a senior editor and legal affairs correspondent at Newsweek for 20 years. While there, he wrote several dozen cover stories on the Court and other topics. Later he was a contributing editor at Fortune, where he wrote long-form profiles of Charlie Rose, Howard Schultz, David Geffen, and Ralph Nader, among others. He is the author of the national bestseller The Silicon Boys; an account of the 2000 presidential election, The Accidental President (on which the HBO feature film Recount was based); and Mine's Bigger, about the largest sailboat in history, which won the Loeb Award for Best Business Book of 2008. These days, he teaches journalism and ethics at NYU and CUNY.
5 weitere Werke von David A. Kaplan:
Bewertungen
Anmelden