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

Completely updated to cover Supreme Court decisions through October of 1997, this classic study remains the basic work in the field. Providing historical context and current insight, Freedom and the Court is the best and most comprehensive textual summary of the Supreme Courts work on civil liberties and civil rights. Lucid, lively, and impeccably researched and enormously readable, it is indispensable to the teaching of civil liberties and the Supreme Court.