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This is constitutional history as it should be written, but seldom is. Combining an excellent sketch of Chase's life with the social, intellectual, and moral climate of the times, Hyman provides a brilliant analysis of two landmark decisions. He also presents a stimulating, original, and provocative treatment of the Chase Court that sheds new light on our understanding of the thirteenth and fourteenth amendments. --John Niven, editor of The Salmon P. Chase Papers

This is constitutional history as it should be written, but seldom is. Combining an excellent sketch of Chase s life with the social, intellectual, and moral climate of the times, Hyman provides a brilliant analysis of two landmark decisions. He also presents a stimulating, original, and provocative treatment of the Chase Court that sheds new light on our understanding of the thirteenth and fourteenth amendments. John Niven, editor of The Salmon P. Chase Papers An authoritative and revealing examination of two cases of the Reconstruction period. Hyman melds chase's earlier life with mid-nineteenth-century American history in general and with the chief justice's reasoning in both cases and thereby provides the diligent reader with a sophisticated analysis of what the Civil War and Reconstruction meant to Chase and the Supreme Court in the late 1860s. Law and Politics Book Review Hyman is to be congratulated for writing an outstanding exposition of complicated constitutional issues. His arguments are well supported, and his book will long be the standard work on the subject. Journal of American History Hyman has written much more than an analysis of those two cases, and his book can be read with profit by scholars and students alike. Fore he has given his readers an excellent original overview of Chase s life, and he has described brilliantly the historical context behind those momentous legal decisions. Ohio History An insightful account of the complex life of Salmon P. Chase. Journal of Legal History

This is constitutional history as it should be written, but seldom is. Combining an excellent sketch of Chase's life with the social, intellectual, and moral climate of the times, Hyman provides a brilliant analysis of two landmark decisions. He also presents a stimulating, original, and provocative treatment of the Chase Court that sheds new light on our understanding of the thirteenth and fourteenth amendments. --<b>John Niven</b>, editor of <i>The Salmon P. Chase Papers</i>

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