Freedom and the Court: Civil Rights and Liberties in the United States

Completely updated to cover Supreme Court decisions through June of 1993, this classic study remains the basic work in the field. With the addition of four new Justices since the fifth edition and major decisions relating to affirmative action, abortion, desegregation, and criminal due process, Freedom and the Court remains the best and the most comprehensive textual summary of the Supreme Court's work on civil liberties and civil rights. Lucid, Lively, impeccably researched and enormously readable, this book is indispensable to the teaching of civil liberties and the Supreme Court.