The award-winning author of Sam Houston, Passionate Nation, and Wolf: The Lives of Jack London offers a lively narrative history of Texas’s highest court and how it helped to shape the Lone Star State during its first 150 years.

A remarkable collection of original decrees, court cases, and other documents charting the legal history of African Americans in Texas, from Mexican rule through Confederate law.

This biography of the former Attorney General of the United States (1945–1949) and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1949–1967) provides important insights into the workings of the Supreme Court and the justices who served on it during arguably