Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court (3 Rev ed)

No other reference on the U.S. Supreme Court offers so much detail and insight in so readable a format.

This two-volume set is packed with all the information readers need from the Court's origins and how it functions, to the people who have shaped it and the impact of its decisions on American life.

Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court covers the Court's history; its operations; its power in relation to other branches of government; major decisions, and biographies of the justices.

Decisions, changes, controversies, and appointments and retirements through the July 1996 term are placed in the context of the Court's history.