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Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court’s Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America

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Readers

87/100

Critics

16/100

Scholars

91/100

Author:

Adam Cohen

Publisher:

Penguin Press

Date:

February 25, 2020

From New York Times-bestselling author Adam Cohen, an examination of the conservative direction of the Supreme Court over the last fifty years since the Nixon administration.

What The Reviewers Say

Thomas J. Davis,
Library Journal
Weaving legal, political, and social history, Cohen creates a richly detailed, but accessible, account for all interested in the personalities and politics that have shaped and are continuing to shape not only the U.S. criminal justice system but also the fabric of American life. A must-read..
Joseph Fishkin,
The Washington Post
The book is a liberal cri de coeur, a lamentation of the many distinct and specific ways American society might be fairer, more equal and more humane if that one consequential change, the court’s decisive shift to the right under Nixon, had not occurred.
Michael O'Donnell,
The Atlantic
Given individual justices who can sometimes seem too big for their robes, Cohen’s wonky emphasis on cases rather than characters offers a steady perspective.
Deborah Mason,
BookPage
Cohen is uniquely qualified to write this book.