THE LIFE OF ROGER BROOKE TANEY, CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT

THE LIFE OF ROGER BROOKE TANEY, CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT

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By Bernard C. Steiner. Published by Williams & Wilkins Company, Baltimore, 1922.  Author front eps presentation inscription: “Miss Eleanor M___ Johnson/ with grateful regards of/Bernard C. Steiner/ May 12, 1922. 553 pp., frontispiece. Blue glazed cloth, 9.25 x 6.5”, w/gilt spine lettering. Exhibits moderate wear at the extremities, plus light cover scratches, foxing of frontispiece, sun fading of spine. Else VG, with tight spine signatures. Scarce biography of the Chief Justice who presided over the “Dred Scott” decision that exacerbated sectional tension in the late 1850s. [jp] [ph:L]

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