Justice of Shattered Dreams: Samuel Freeman Miller and the Supreme Court During the Civil War Era

Appointed by Abraham Lincoln to the U.S. Supreme Court during the Civil War, Samuel Freeman Miller (1816--1890)...
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Author: Michael A. Ross
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Justice of Shattered Dreams: Samuel Freeman Miller and the Supreme Court During the Civil War Era by Ross, Michael A.

Justice of Shattered Dreams: Samuel Freeman Miller and the Supreme Court During the Civil War Era

BD$38.95

Justice of Shattered Dreams: Samuel Freeman Miller and the Supreme Court During the Civil War Era

BD$38.95
Author: Michael A. Ross
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Appointed by Abraham Lincoln to the U.S. Supreme Court during the Civil War, Samuel Freeman Miller (1816--1890) served on the nation's highest tribunal for twenty-eight tumultuous years and holds a place in legal history as one of the Court's most influential justices. Michael A. Ross creates a colorful portrait of a passionate man grappling with the difficult legal issues arising from a time of wrenching social and political change. He also explores the impact President Lincoln's Supreme Court appointments made on American constitutional history.
Best known for his opinions in cases dealing with race and the Fourteenth Amendment, particularly the 1873 Slaughter-House Cases, Miller has often been considered a misguided opponent of Reconstruction and racial equality. In this major reinterpretation, Ross argues that historians have failed to study the evolution of Miller's views during the war and explains how Miller, a former slaveholder, became a champion of African Americans' economic and political rights. He was also the staunchest supporter of the Court of Lincoln's controversial war measures, including the decision to suspend such civil liberties as habeas corpus.
Although commonly portrayed as an agrarian folk hero, Miller in fact initially foresaw and embraced a future in which frontier and rivertown settlements would bloom into thriving metropolises. The optimistic vision grew from the free-labor ideology Miller brought to the Iowa Republican Party he helped found, one that celebrated ordinatry citizens' right to rise in station an driches. Disillusioned by the eventual failure of the boomtowns and repelled by the swelling coffers of eastern financiers, corporations, and robber barons, Miller became an insistent judicial voice for western Republicans embittered and marginalized in the Gilded Age.
The first biography of Miller since 1939, this welcome volume draws on Miller's previously unavailable papers to shed new light on a man who saw his dreams for America shattered but whose essential political and social values, as well as his personal integrity, remained intact.



Author: Michael A. Ross
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 09/01/2003
Pages: 350
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.20h x 5.88w x 1.01d
ISBN: 9780807129241


Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2004 pg. 1948
Univ PR Books for Public Libry 01/01/2004 pg. 32 - Strongly Recommended

About the Author

Michael A. Ross was previously a corporate attorney and is now an associate professor of history at the University of Maryland. He is the author of several award-winning articles on Samuel Miller's Supreme Court career.


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