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Throughout his career, Harry Blackmun has expressed a deep empathy for society's most vulnerable outsiders - women with unwanted pregnancies, homosexuals subjected to archaic laws, and ultimately, death-row inmates. This is a biography of the US Supreme Court justice who wrote the Wade vs Roe v...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yarbrough, Tinsley E., 1941-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Subjects:
Blackmun, Harry A. > (Harry Andrew), > 1908-1999.
United States. > Supreme Court > Biography.
États-Unis. > Supreme Court > Biographies.
Blackmun, Harry A. > (Harry Andrew), > 1908-1999
United States. > Supreme Court
Judges > United States > Biography.
Juges > États-Unis > Biographies.
Lawyers & Judges.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
Constitutional.
LAW.
Judicial Branch.
American Government.
POLITICAL SCIENCE.
Penology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE.
Judges
United States
Electronic books.
Biographies
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Throughout his career, Harry Blackmun has expressed a deep empathy for society's most vulnerable outsiders - women with unwanted pregnancies, homosexuals subjected to archaic laws, and ultimately, death-row inmates. This is a biography of the US Supreme Court justice who wrote the Wade vs Roe verdict.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 397 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199851577
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9786611158835
6611158839
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9780198032380