Mike Sacks Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.

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Nine Men: A Political History Of The Supreme Court From 1790 To 1955

Fred Rodell

Mike Sacks

Gonna read @JoanBiskupic’s latest. Perhaps it’s in the vein of two other SCOTUS group portraits from earlier turning points in the Court’s history: The Nine Old Men by Pearson & Allen (1937) https://t.co/8FOFh02P6a Nine Men by Fred Rodell (1955) https://t.co/QSRJ7K1tzv https://t.co/WvdJOMiiLH

Paperback, 2012

$36.95$18.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America

Wil Haygood

Mike Sacks

And now you must all read “Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America” https://t.co/d2BiVUouTV https://t.co/3pCCivgH6N

Paperback, 2016

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book

The Court at War: Fdr, His Justices, and the World They Made

Cliff Sloan

Mike Sacks

Just finished @cliff_sloan’s The Court at War—a great portrait of FDR’s justices united in reverence for the President who appointed them, but divided on the Court’s role in the new political order they each helped him create and secure. Get the book! https://t.co/Dv1eRR2yhu https://t.co/yTiSn1SIZ4

Hardcover, 2023

$32.50$16.25 + Free shipping50% off your first book

The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution

Eric Foner

Mike Sacks

If you want to see how KBJ & co plan to expose originalism’s fraudulence from the bench, look to Eric Foner’s The Second Founding and…@ElieNYC’s Allow Me to Retort https://t.co/xQ0eHwj1Jv https://t.co/pvtHgcA3BX https://t.co/XnDZkjpDCd

Paperback, 2020

$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book