Steve Suitts
1) Hugo Black of Alabama: How His Roots and Early Career Shaped the Great Champion of the Constitution
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Three decades after his death, the life and career of Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black continue to be studied and discussed.
This definitive study of Black's origins and early influences has been 25 years in the making and offers fresh insights into the justice's character, thought processes, and instincts.
Black came out of hardscrabble Alabama hill country, and he never forgot his origins. He was further shaped in the early 20th-century...
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In a sweeping reinterpretation of the history of disfranchisement, Steve Suitts illuminates how a century of political conflicts in Alabama came to shape both some of America's best achievements in voting rights and its continuing struggles over voter suppression. A War of Sections tells the unknown political history symbolized today by the annual pilgrimage of presidents and celebrities across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. It is the story of how that...