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Vaulting Ambition : FDR's Campaign to Pack the Supreme Court
Title
Vaulting Ambition : FDR's Campaign to Pack the Supreme Court / Michael Nelson.
ISBN
9780700634132
Publication
Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2023]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000
Copyright Notice Date
©[2023]
Physical Description
1 online resource.
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Summary
"This book is about Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1937 effort to pack the Supreme Court. Unlike most work on the subject, Michael Nelson's focus is more on the president's decisions than on the Court's responses. It analytically narrates what FDR was doing (or choosing not to do) in response to these developments as they occurred. While keeping Court-packing front and center, Nelson embeds the effort in FDR's larger campaign to direct American government and politics in pursuit of his desire to entrench the New Deal lastingly in several of the country's major political and governmental institutions: Congress, the Democratic Party, and the executive branch, as well as the Court. It was an understandable effort: the Republicans had dominated all three branches for varying but considerable lengths of time. In the end, the president's effort was unevenly successful"-- Provided by the publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2023.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 13, 2023
Series
Landmark presidential decisions
Contents
Prologue : January 6, 1937
FDR, the Executive Branch, and the Supreme Court : relief, reform, and resistance
To do or not to do?
The 1936 Election : FDR decides not to decide
The President proposes
The Senate disposes
Did FDR succeed?
Subjects
Genre/Form
History
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