Mr. Justice Miller and the Supreme Court, Charles Fairman's Copy.
The Author's Personally Annotated Copy Fairman, Charles [1897-1988]. Mr. Justice Miller and the Supreme Court. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1939. [x], 456 pp. Frontispiece. Publisher's cloth, gilt title to spine. Some wear to extremities, front joint cracked and crudely mended with tape, hinges cracked, several, mostly partial, cracks to text block, some leaves loosening in places but secure. Owner signature of Charles Fairman in blue ink to front free endpaper, Fairman's occasional notes and markings to text and rear endleaves in ink and pencil. $750. * This is the personal working copy of the author, renowned legal scholar and historian Charles Fairman. Mr. Justice Miller and the Supreme Court, published in 1939, is a seminal biographical and legal study examining the life and judicial tenure of Samuel Freeman Miller, who served on the U.S. Supreme Court during the tumultuous post-Civil War era (1862-1890). Fairman's meticulous research provides essential insight into the Court's development of constitutional law during Reconstruction. This specific volume possesses exceptional provenance, signed by Fairman himself and containing his own handwritten annotations, corrections, and thoughts. It offers a rare window into the scholarly process of a key figure in American legal history. Charles Fairman, the author of this biography of Miller, was a distinguished law professor, historian and political scientist. Mentored by Felix Frankfurter, whom he met while obtaining his S.J.D. degree at Harvard, he went on to hold a number of academic positions at Stanford University, Stanford Law School, Washington University School of Law and Harvard Law School, among other institutions. He also wrote several important and well-reviewed books, including volumes six and seven of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the United States Supreme Court. According to a contemporary review, the present work constituted "the best biography of an American judge since Beveridge's life of John Marshall" (Wyzanski). The annotations in our copy add sources, elaborate on various points and correct errors. They may represent preparation for a second edition, which did not materialize. Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr., Harvard Law Rev.
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