Supreme Court of the United States/Bibliography

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Introduction

• Baum, Lawrence. The Supreme Court (2006) excerpt and text search
• Hall, Kermit, et al. eds. The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States 2nd edition (Oxford, UK/New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2005) Also published under the title The Oxford Guide to the Supreme Court of the United States ISBN 9780195340945 excerpt and text search; complete text online at OUP
• O'Brien, David M. Storm Center: The Supreme Court in American Politics. 8th edition. (New York: W.W. Norton, 2008). ISBN 9780393932188 excerpt and text search

History

General Overviews

• Hoffer, Peter Charles, Williamjames Hull Hoffer, and N. E. H. Hull. The Supreme Court: An Essential History (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2007), by leading scholars. ISBN 9780700615384 excerpt and text search
• Irons, Peter. A People's History of the Supreme Court: The Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions Have Shaped Our Constitution. Preface by Howard Zinn. 2nd ed. (New York: Penguin, 2006). ISBN 0670870064 excerpt and text search
• Rehnquist, William H. The Supreme Court. New Edition. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005). ISBN 0307290328. Written by the late Chief Justice. First edition 1987 excerpt and text search
• Schwartz, Bernard. A History of the Supreme Court (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995). ISBN 978019509387 excerpt and text search
• Warren, Charles. The Supreme Court in United States History (Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Co., 1922). vol 1 1789-1821 online; vol 2 1821-1855 online; vol 3 1856-1918 online

20th Century

• Swindler, William Finley Court and Constitution in the Twentieth Century. 3 vols. (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1969-1974) ISBN 9780672518737

Recent History and Current Affairs

• Greenburg, Jan Crawford. Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court (New York: The Penguin Press, 2008) ISBN 9781594201011 excerpt and text search
• Pickering, Charles Sr. Supreme Chaos. The Politics of Judicial Confirmation and the Culture War. (Macon, GA: Stroud & Hall, 2005). ISBN 0974537659 excerpt and text search
• Rosen, Jeffrey. The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries That Defined America (New York: New York Times Books, 2007). ISBN 9780805081824 excerpt and text search
• Toobin, Jeffrey. The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court. Anchor Book reprint with new afterword (New York: Anchor, 2008). ISBN 9781400096794 excerpt and text search First edition (New York: Doubleday, 2007) ISBN 9780385516402 excerpt (Google Books)