Shaping America
The Supreme Court and American Society
Edward F. Mannino
Shaping America offers a compelling survey of American history as viewed through
the perspective of the United States Supreme Court, concentrating on how the Court’s
decisions have shaped American society and how the Court in turn has been affected
by prevailing political cultures, strong public attitudes, and several dominating justices.
Edward F. Mannino, a practicing trial lawyer and legal historian, analyzes the historical forces that permitted the Court to affect American society profoundly through
some 150 decisions organized along chronological and thematic lines. Casting his gaze
across the nation’s past, he surveys seminal cases in American constitutional history,
including Marbury v. Madison, the New Orleans Slaughterhouse Cases, Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education, Boumediene v. Bush, and D.C. v. Heller. Mannino
takes special interest in cases respecting business and religion in American society and
offers concise and objective perspectives on decisions affecting them. Throughout the
volume Mannino illustrates the mutual influence the Court and societal forces have on
each other, ably demonstrating how Court deliberations affect—and are affected by—
the context in which they occur.
Mannino integrates historical and legal subjects into a single comprehensive
exploration of the Supreme Court’s evolving role in shaping American society from
the earliest days of the eighteenth century through the present. The result is a useful
single-volume study of defining issues in American legal history.
November 2009, 328 pages
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Edward F. Mannino is a graduate of
the University of Pennsylvania and its
law school. A trial lawyer concentrating on business litigation, he has been
named one of the nation’s top litigators
by the National Law Journal. Mannino
has taught at Temple University Law
School and the University of Pennsylvania and is the author of three books
on legal topics. He lives in Gwynedd
Valley, Pennsylvania.
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