Supreme Inequality
The Supreme Court's Fifty-year Battle for a More Unjust America
Penguin Publishing Group · Print & ebook · February 25, 2020
“Meticulously researched and engagingly written . . . a comprehensive indictment of the court’s rulings in areas ranging from campaign finance and voting rights to poverty law and criminal justice.” —Financial Times A revelatory examination of the conservative direction of the Supreme Court over the last fifty years.
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- Who it’s for
- A brisk, edgy look at how the Court helped remake American inequality.
- Genres
- Courts & the Judiciary, Constitutional Law, Civil Rights
- Published
- Penguin Publishing Group, February 25, 2020
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“Meticulously researched and engagingly written . . . a comprehensive indictment of the court’s rulings in areas ranging from campaign finance and voting rights to poverty law and criminal justice.” —Financial Times A revelatory examination of the conservative direction of the Supreme Court over the last fifty years.
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In Supreme Inequality, bestselling author Adam Cohen surveys the most significant Supreme Court rulings since the Nixon era and exposes how, contrary to what Americans like to believe, the Supreme Court does little to protect the rights of the poor and disadvantaged; in fact, it has not been on their side for fifty years. Cohen proves beyond doubt that the modern Court has been one of the leading forces behind the nation’s soaring level of economic inequality, and that an institution revered as a source of fairness has been systematically making America less fair. A triumph of American legal, political, and social history, Supreme Inequality holds to account the highest court in the land and shows how much damage it has done to America’s ideals of equality, democracy, and justice for all.
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A brisk, edgy look at how the Court helped remake American inequality.
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- Supreme Court history with teeth
- A sharp, talkable take on American inequality
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- A sustained, argument-driven read
- Plenty to argue about after
Where it sits
| Courts & the Judiciary | 71% |
|---|---|
| Constitutional Law | 24% |
| Civil Rights | 19% |
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Publisher categories
- 20th-Century America
- Constitutional Law
- Courts & the Judiciary
- Authors
- Adam Cohen
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- February 25, 2020
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- 20th-Century America