Division and Discord: The Supreme Court under Stone and Vinson, 1941-1953

From: The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography | Date: January 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

Division and Discord: The Supreme Court under Stone and Vinson, 1941-1953. By MELVIN I. UROFSKY. Chief Justiceships of the United States Supreme Court. HERBERT A. JOHNSON, General Editor. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1997. xv, 298 pp. $39.95. MELVIN I. UROFSKY S latest work on the Supreme Court suggests the usefulness of studying negative examples. Generally, historians have identified the Court's most salient influence on the nation's life with the tenure of certain chief justices, particularly John Marshall, Roger B. Taney, Charles Evans Hughes, Earl Warren, and William H. ...

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