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History has registered the Reconstruction as a monument to the vindictiveness of victory. Prostrate in defeat, the South played helpless host to its Northern plunderers, who not only despoiled the land but turned its government over to newly emancipated and ignorant slaves. Ever since, the South has rested part of...
"W. in a Rage." This final installment opens on that act of defiance and closes with victory in World War II. As Churchill's Foreign Secretary and acknowledged heir, he had the power to dispute the Prime Minister's judgment, and frequently did. As early as 1942 he...
The civil rights speeches droned on-and on and on. The crowd was quiet -and bored. Finally, after two hours, arose the man everyone had been waiting to hear. Martin Luther King was eloquent. "We have walked on meandering highways and rested our bodies on rocky byways," he said. "They...
With Ev's testimony, the defense rested.
Sovereign Prerogative. Frankfurter saw the Constitution as "a vessel out of which meaning is drawn and into which meaning is poured." Vast power to alter that meaning, he pointed out, rested with nine fallible men: "The Supreme Court is the Constitution." For that very reason, Frankfurter feared that lifetime judges...