FDR's Gambit (Record no. 7837)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780197539323 |
| Qualifying information | electronic book |
| Canceled/invalid ISBN | 9780197539293 |
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| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | UK-OxUP |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Transcribing agency | UK-OxUP |
| Description conventions | rda |
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| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | K140-165 |
| Item number | 356 |
| 082 0# - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 340 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Kalman, Laura |
| Relator term | author |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | FDR's Gambit |
| Remainder of title | The Court Packing Fight and the Rise of Legal Liberalism |
| Medium | electronic |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Laura Kalman |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | First Edition |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | New York, NY |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Oxford University Press |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2022 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 438 p |
| Other physical details | All black and white images |
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| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
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| Media type term | computer |
| Media type code | c |
| Source | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Carrier type code | cr |
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| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Oxford scholarship online |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Contents: Preface—Court Packing as History and Memory – Acknowledgments – 1. Roosevelt v. “The Nine Old Men”: March 1933–February 1936 – 2. Victory—and Its Fruits: April 6–December 26, 1936 – 3. Bright Prospects, Bold Opposition: January 1–March 3, 1937 – 4. A Change in Tune at the White House—and at the Court?: March 4–April 11, 1937 – 5. “Talk of Compromise . . . Heard Everywhere”: April 12–May 25, 1937 – 6. “Prestige”: May 18, 1937–November 8, 1938 – 7. Afterlife: 1937–2022 – Afterword—About Those “Later Historians”: Historians, Political Scientists, Law Professors, and “1937” – Abbreviations for Manuscript Sources – Notes – Index |
| 520 3# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | After winning the greatest victory ever in 1936, Franklin Roosevelt stunned the country the following year. He proposed adding up to six new justices to the Supreme Court for every justice who reached the age of seventy and did not retire. He did so under the stated guise of assisting elderly justices. His real reason was that they blocked his program. Six of the court’s members were over seventy. Five of the six were conservatives who struck down New Deal legislation, often by razor-thin margins. A firestorm exploded. FDR was accused of “court packing,” dictatorial ambitions, political trickery, undermining the rule of law, and undercutting judicial independence. The overwhelmingly Democratic Senate recommitted his bill by seventy to twenty. The magnitude of his defeat made his remedy seem absurd. And indeed, scholars have portrayed the court bill as the ill-fated brainchild of a hubristic president made overbold by victory. Consequently, in the eighty-five years since, court packing has become unthinkable, and the court’s current size, an entrenched norm. Based on extensive archival research, this book challenges the conventional wisdom by telling the story as it unfolded, without the distortions of hindsight. It argues that acumen, not arrogance, accounted for Roosevelt’s actions. Far from erring tragically from the beginning, he came very close to getting additional justices, and the court itself changed course. In fact, the episode suggests that proposing a change in the court might give the justices reason to consider whether their present course is endangering the institution and its vital role in a liberal democracy. But whether or not it is the right remedy for today’s troubles, court packing does not deserve to be recalled as one fated for failure in 1937. |
| 650 00 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Court Packing, Court Expansion |
| 650 00 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| General subdivision | FDR v. Congress FDR v. Supreme Court |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Relationship information | Print Version |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780197539293 |
| 830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE | |
| Uniform title | Oxford Academic |
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| Materials specified | Oxford Academic |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197539293.001.0001">https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197539293.001.0001</a> |
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