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Article: John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court.(Book Review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- August 1, 2003
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By R. Kent Newmyer. Southern Biography Series. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. Pp. [xx], 511. $39.95, ISBN 0-8071-2701-9.)
This study--the latest in a long line of Marshall biographies stretching back to the nineteenth century--builds upon a mass of accumulated scholarship while adding some important new insights and perspectives. Newmyer's interest in the legendary Chief Justice has been long-standing. Early in his career he published The Supreme Court under Marshall and Taney (New York, 1968), a valuable but brief work that was widely used in college history courses, and later he brought out a definitive biography of Joseph Story, ...