Success without victory lost legal battles and the long road to justice in America /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
New York University Press,
c2003.
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| Series: | Critical America.
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| Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: losers, fools, and prophets
- Can law stop war? The Constitution and Iraq
- A tradition of resistance : anti-slavery litigators and the fight for freedom
- "A fine agitation" : women's suffrage goes to court
- Plessy v. Ferguson : the fool's last battle
- Plant closing litigation : "Youngstown sure died hard"
- Politics versus law : were travelers to Cuba trading with the enemy?
- Challenging United States intervention in Central America
- End of an era: fighting U.S. action in Kosovo.