A Theory of Liberty: The Constitution and Minorities (Routledge Library Editions: Political Thought and Political Philosophy)

Hirsch, H.N.

Rules & Procedures

Routledge

Arguing that minority rights were vitally important to the founding fathers, H. N. Hirsch presents an original and provocative look at issues such as affirmative action, abortion, and the rights of children, lesbians and gay men, mental patients, and the physically disabled. In an analysis which blends history, philosophy, law, and social science, Hirsch attacks both liberals who hide from history and conservatives who push for "original intent." He exposes the errors and hypocrisy of the current Supreme Court majority and argues that the Constitution's liberty can and should be interpreted to protect the rights of minority groups.

A Theory of Liberty: The Constitution and Minorities (After the Law)

The Future of Gay Rights in America

Sandra Day O'Connor has called the gay rights movement "the first important civil rights struggle of the twenty-first century." Recent court decisions to overturn sodomy laws and to recognize gay marriage have emboldened activists, but have also resulted in a tremendous backlash, not the least of which has been a call for a constitutional amendment defining marriage as only between members of the opposite sex. Through its historical and legal contextualization of these decisions The Future of Gay Rights in America is essential for understanding an epochal moment in the history of gay rights.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Sandra Day O'Connor has called the gay rights movement "the first important civil rights struggle of the twenty-first century." Recent court decisions to overturn sodomy laws and to recognize gay marriage have emboldened activists, but have also resulted in a tremendous backlash, not the least of which has been a call for a constitutional amendment defining marriage as only between members of the opposite sex. Through its historical and legal contextualization of these decisions The Future of Gay Rights in America is essential for understanding an epochal moment in the history of gay rights.

History

Americas

A recognized, fascinating, and often-cited classic of judicial biography and Supreme Court insight is now available in a new paperback edition. Felix Frankfurter was perhaps the most influential jurist of the 20th century—and one of the most complex men ever to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court. Mysteries and apparent contradictions abound. A vibrant and charming friend to many, why are his diaries so full of vitriol against judicial colleagues, especially Douglas and Black? An active Zionist, why did he so zealously enjoy the company of Boston Brahmins, whose snobbery he detested? Most puzzling of all: why did someone known before his appointment to the Court as a civil libertarian—even a radical—become our most famous and persistent advocate for austere judicial restraint? In answering these and other questions, this pathbreaking biography of Frankfurter explores the personality of the man as a key to understanding the Justice. Hirsch sees in Frankfurter's fascinating and complex persona a clue to the biggest mystery of all: the contrast between the brilliant and ambitious young immigrant rising by his intellect and charm to leadership in U.S. academic and political life; and the judge, equally brilliant, but increasingly isolated, embittered, and ineffective. "Hirsch's well-written book ... dispels the contradictory image that has long mystified students of Felix Frankfurter. His portrait is unvarnished, yet scrupulously fair. Revealed is a consummate manipulator of public men and policy. No future biographer can safely ignore the brilliant biographical work." — Alpheus Thomas Mason Princeton University "Hirsch's carefully constructed and supported psychological analysis of Justice Frankfurter gives us an exciting look at the inner workings of the Supreme Court." — Martin Shapiro University of California, Berkeley A new addition to the Legal History &amp; Biography Series from Quid Pro Books.

The Enigma of Felix Frankfurter

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Quid Pro, LLC

Office Hours: One Academic Life

A personal look inside the black box of American higher education. Even a cursory glance at today’s headlines reveals that higher education is in crisis. Tuition outpaces inflation, states slash budgets, graduation rates decline, and technology threatens to reshape everything. Universities continue to crank out new PhDs, but many will become poorly paid members of a secondary, adjunct labor force teaching most of today’s college courses. Scholars lucky enough to be on the tenure track must publish more and more, while students at large universities sit in ever larger lectures, seldom interacting with professors. Yet every year, thousands of applicants from the world over apply to America’s most prestigious colleges and universities, and students and their families continue to spend huge sums on college. What are colleges and universities really like—from the inside? What do we do wrong, and what are we doing right? What is it like to be a professor and administrator at one of America’s prestigious educational institutions? This memoir asks these questions, in a very personal way. “This is the story of a serious scholar finding his vocation, his students and his gratifications, amidst the near-impossibility of such discoveries in higher education today. The writing is beautiful and the accounts of times, places and institutions are alternatively moving, penetrating and provocative.” — Wendy Brown Class of 1936 First Professor of Political Science University of California, Berkeley “Written in lyrical and sparkling prose, Harry Hirsch’s Office Hours is, on the one hand, an intimate and insightful memoir of a Jewish gay man’s trajectory from a Chicago boyhood to Princeton, Harvard, and beyond. On the other hand, it’s a penetrating critical analysis of college and university approaches to education by an accomplished professor and dean (and dedicated teacher) who knows of what he speaks. Office Hours draws back the curtain on a major way of American life—the academic way—revealing at once the bright spots and the rotten ones. It should be read by every dean, professor, and adjunct, and by anyone involved in an academic career or contemplating one.” — Priscilla Long Author of The Writer's Portable Mentor and Crossing Over: Poems

Even a cursory glance at today's headlines reveals that higher education is in crisis. Tuition outpaces inflation, states slash budgets, graduation rates decline, and technology threatens to reshape everything. Universities continue to crank out new PhDs, but many will become poorly paid members of a secondary, adjunct labor force teaching most of today's college courses. Scholars lucky enough to be on the tenure track must publish more and more, while students at large universities sit in ever larger lectures, seldom interacting with professors. • Yet every year, thousands of applicants from the world over apply to America's most prestigious colleges and universities, and students and their families continue to spend huge sums on college. • What are colleges and universities really like-from the inside? What do we do wrong, and what are we doing right? What is it like to be a professor and administrator at one of America's leading educational institutions? This memoir asks these questions, in a very personal way. • "This is the story of a serious scholar finding his vocation, his students and his gratifications, amidst the near-impossibility of such discoveries in higher education today. The writing is beautiful and the accounts of times, places and institutions are alternatively moving, penetrating and provocative." - Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley • "Written in lyrical and sparkling prose, Harry Hirsch's Office Hours is, on the one hand, an intimate and insightful memoir of a Jewish gay man's trajectory from a Chicago boyhood to Princeton, Harvard, and beyond. On the other hand, it's a penetrating critical analysis of college and university approaches to education by an accomplished professor and dean (and dedicated teacher) who knows of what he speaks. Office Hours draws back the curtain on a major way of American life-the academic way-revealing at once the bright spots and the rotten ones. It should be read by every dean, professor, and adjunct, and by anyone involved in an academic career or contemplating one." - Priscilla Long, Author of The Writer's Portable Mentor and Crossing Over: Poems

Product Description A modern murder mystery. Assistant Professor Marcus George, a young, gay Harvard faculty member striving to find his footing in the Ivy League, is drawn into investigating the murder of one of his former students, the son of an elite Massachusetts family. Centered on the tense, competitive world of academic politics, the narrative vividly captures the publish-or-perish standards of academia, the strictures of life in exclusive enclaves in Boston and Kennebunkport, and the gay subculture along the New England coast. As he investigates the murder, Marcus stumbles across academic and financial corruption that could ruin several lives -- even as he falls into a tender and heartwarming love affair that will change his own. Hirsch's first novel is a beautifully realized, gripping tale in the classic style of the murder mystery genre. Review Blend atmospheric academic politics at Harvard University with a murder that rocks a New England community, and explores the gay lifestyle operating beneath its veneer of conservatism, for a sense of the different approach that Shade cultivates. [This is] a murder mystery that features an unlikely investigator: Assistant Professor Marcus George, a young, gay faculty member who becomes involved in investigating the murder of one of his former students, the son of a wealthy family. H.N. Hirsch's ability to capture the mercurial mystery in a way that will grab the attention of mystery and general-interest audiences alike is evident from the opening lines of the story: "At first he did not think it would be anything, just a quick meal with a former student. He didn't know a young life was about to end, or that his own life was, in a way, just beginning." The issues introduced by lifestyle and culture..., from relationships between disparate age groups to the culture of an Ivy League college community in New England, ... add more depth to the story than the usual whodunit, delving into matters of social and political conflict as well as crime and discovery. Hirsch is particularly adept at ... capturing the atmosphere of a changing world in which the AIDS epidemic is ravaging the gay community. Describing Shade as a "murder mystery" alone does it an injustice. [It is] highly recommended not just for mystery readers, but for those interested in the culture and special social, political, and psychological challenges of members of the gay community in 1980s New England.----D. Donovan, Donovan's Bookshelf, Midwest Book Review In H. N. Hirsch's Shade, Marcus George, a junior faculty member at Harvard who is gay and in almost every way an outsider, gets drawn into solving the murder of one of his advisees, the son-gay, brilliant, and gorgeous-of an old, elite Massachusetts family. This is a mystery that goes beyond who-done-it to capture the tense, competitive world of academic politics and that vividly puts on the page the Ivy League and "Miller's Cove," a coastal town in Maine. The plot thickens and thickens again, and in the process, Marcus falls into a tender and heartwarming love affair. This novel is beautifully realized, a gripping read from beginning to end.-Priscilla Long, author, Fire and Stone: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? Shade is a dilly of a mystery! Set in mid-1980s ivory-tower academia, a gay, untenured Harvard professor discovers that "publish or perish" can lead to dark places when he is asked to help find the murderer of a gifted former student. Author H. N. Hirsch brilliantly captures the milieux of Boston and the very rich, the dog-eat-dog world of faculty hierarchy, and gay life at the beginning of AIDS' deadly march. Like Jimmy Stewart in many of his films, Marcus is an everyman thrust into unexpected and dangerous places, and he must set things right-often at his own peril. This journey is enriched when he meets Bob, who becomes his "Dr. Watson" and romantic partner. The two doggedly pursue what seems to be a dead-end case

Shade

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Pisgah Press LLC

Newly minted 25-year-old lawyer Bob Abramson joins the DA's office in San Diego and soon finds himself leading an investigation into the politically charged murder of the mayor's husband, a powerful, wealthy developer with far too many secrets for his wife's political ambitions.\nBob's first encounter with murder occurred four years previously, when his roommate, the scion of an old Boston family, was murdered and the case was investigated by the victim's Harvard professor, Marcus George. As the investigation developed, Bob and Marcus, naturally, fell in love.\nNow, Bob has completed law school and landed a job as an Assistant District Attorney in San Diego, and Marcus has accepted a new position at UC San Diego. As they settle in to their new home, they're thrust into the investigation and its political ramification, and they find that a gay subculture roils much of southern California's placidly straight surface.

Fault Line

Rain (A Bob & Marcus Mystery)

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A Theory of Liberty: The Constitution and Minorities (Routledge Library Editions: Political Thought and Political Philosophy)

A Theory of Liberty: The Constitution and Minorities (After the Law)

The Future of Gay Rights in America

The Future of Gay Rights in America

The Enigma of Felix Frankfurter

Office Hours: One Academic Life

Office Hours: One Academic Life

Shade

Fault Line

Rain (A Bob & Marcus Mystery)