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Volume 28 - February 2010

Book Reviews

Joel William Friedman, Champion of Civil Rights: Judge John Minor Wisdom, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009. Pp. 401. $49.95 (ISBN 978-0-8071-3384-2).

Kurt T. Lash, The Lost History of the Ninth Amendment, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. 360. $85.00 (ISBN 978-0-19-537261-8).

Kevin Kenny, Peaceable Kingdom Lost: The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn's Holy Experiment, New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. 294. $29.95 (ISBN 978-0-19-533150-9).

J. William Harris, The Hanging of Thomas Jeremiah: A Free Black Man's Encounter with Liberty, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2009. Pp. xi + 223. $27.50 (ISBN: 978-0-300-15214-2).

John Philip Reid, Legislating the Courts: Judicial Dependence in Early National New Hampshire, Dekalb: Northern Illinois Press, 2009. Pp. 224. $34.00 (ISBN 978-0-87580-387-6).

Elizabeth Kolsky, Colonial Justice in British India: White Violence and the Rule of Law, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. 266. $95.00 (ISBN 978-0-521-11686-2).

Anna R. Hayes, Without Precedent: The Life of Susie Marshall Sharp, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. Pp. 576. $35 (ISBN 978-0-8078-3214-1).

Eric Slauter, The State as a Work of Art: The Cultural Origins of the Constitution, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. xii + 373. $40.00 (ISBN 978-0-226-76195-4).

Earl M. Maltz, Slavery and the Supreme Court, 1825–1861, Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009. Pp. 362. $34.95 (ISBN 978-0-7006-1666-4).

Christine Haynes, Lost Illusions: The Politics of Publishing in Nineteenth-Century France, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010. Pp. 346. $45.00 (ISBN 978-0-674-03576-8).

Bernie D. Jones, Fathers of Conscience: Mixed-Race Inheritance in the Antebellum South, Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009. Pp. xiv + 197. $59.95 cloth (ISBN 978-0-8203-2980-2); $24.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-8203-3251-2).

Simon Baatz, For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Chicago, New York: HarperCollins, 2008. Pp. 535. $27.95 (ISBN 978-0-06-078100-2).

Mark Elliott, Color-Blind Justice: Albion Tourgée and the Quest for Racial Equality from the Civil War to Plessy v. Ferguson, New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. 308. $30.00 (ISBN 978-0195181395).

Donna Dennis, Licentious Gotham: Erotic Publishing and Its Prosecution in Nineteenth-Century New York, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009. Pp. 386. $29.95 (ISBN 978-0-674-03283-5).

Eliza Earle Ferguson, Gender and Justice: Violence, Intimacy and Community in Fin-de-Siècle Paris, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. Pp. 280. $60.00 (ISBN 978-0-801-89428-2).

Mildred Wigfall Robinson and Richard J. Bonnie, editors, Law Touched Our Hearts: A Generation Remembers Brown v. Board of Education, Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press, 2009. Pp. 249. $45.00 (ISBN 978-0-8265-1619-0).

Francesca Trivellato, The Familiarity of Strangers: The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2009. Pp. 488. $50.00 (ISBN 978-0-300-13683-8).

Yifat Holzman-Gazit, Land Expropriation in Israel: Law, Culture and Society, Hampshire, England: Ashgate, 2007. Pp. 218. $99.95 (ISBN 978-0-754-62543-8).

Adriane Lentz-Smith, Freedom Struggles: African Americans and World War I, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009. Pp. 318. $35.00 (ISBN 978-0-674-03592-8).

Paul Frymer, Black and Blue: African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2008. Pp. 202. $27.95 (ISBN 978-0-691-13465-9).

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