Ambition, expectations, disappointment
David J. Garrow
David J. Garrow’s books include Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama and Bearing the Cross, a Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Martin Luther King Jr.
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The Obscure Heroes Behind Congress’s Great Moment
How Midwestern Republicans, not just an arm-twisting LBJ, helped pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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She’s No Roberts
One individual stands between Harriet Miers and a seat on the U. S. Supreme Court, and it’s not Chuck Schumer, Joe Biden, or Teddy Kennedy. It’s newly confirmed Chief Justice John Roberts. Miers is no less qualified for a seat on the high court than were a host of recent justices. In 1981, Sandra Day […]