Customer Review: This book is *not* designed for casual readers of the law. However, it remains perhaps the most comprehensive review of American Constitutional history available in a single volume. This is still used on college campuses, and should be read by anyone who wants to peruse some of the central arguments... more info
Customer Review: This book is written by a legal scholar who has written on a number of other 20th century American jurists. It only covers Taft's life from the perspective of his chief justiceship. As a result, his life story before 1921 is very sketchy--Mason only relates information about his life-long campaign... more info
Customer Review: I read this book sometime in 1996. I was utterly amazed and awed by the predictions that the anti-federalist's prophecized would happen if a new Constitution was ratified in the form of that which is in place today. It is shocking to see now, here, in the '90's that all of those evils that... more info