New Deal Justice: The Constitutional Jurisprudence of Hugo L. Black, Felix Frankfurter, and Robert H. Jackson [Paperback]

This well-researched and engrossing book illuminates the constitutional jurisprudence of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's most notable appointees to the United States Supreme Court-Hugo L. Black, Felix Frankfurter, and Robert H. Jackson.New Deal Justicedraws extensively upon the memoirs, writings, opinions, and personal papers of these justices but also employs the insights of recent works on American legal, social, and political theory to dramatically alter the theoretical lens through which previous scholars have analyzed their decision making. Hockett pays particular attention to Black's controversial constitutional absolutism, Frankfurter's extraordinary deference to the decisions of legislative and administrative bodies, and Jackson's pragmatic use of the power of judicial review. The author persuasively argues that the New Deal Court was characterized by regional, cultural, and ideological tensions that manifested in the social and political theories of these three justices. This is important reading for students and scholars of constitutional judicial theory and the history of the U.S. Supreme Court.Jeffrey D. Hockettis assistant professor of political science at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

. . . can serve as an important starting point for students and scholars of judicial theory and the history of the U.S. Supreme Court. Judicature

. . . a significant contribution to the literatures on the jurisprudence, history, and politics of the New Deal era. David M. O'Brien, University of Virginia; author of Constitutional Law and Politics

A splendid addition to the literature on the New Deal Justices and, as importantly, to the interplay of politics, law, and culture in the judicial decision-making process of the modern Supreme Court. Kermit L. Hall, Ohio State University

Hockett presents a rich historical account of Populist and Progressive thought, appealing biographical portraits of the three justices, l9