{"product_id":"the-long-reach-of-the-sixties-lbj-nixon-and-the-making-of-the-contemporary-supreme-court","title":"The Long Reach of the Sixties: LBJ  Nixon  and the Making of the Contemporary Supreme Court","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Warren Court of the 1950s and 1960s was the most liberal in American history. Yet within a few short years  new appointments redirected the Court in a more conservative direction  a trend that continued for decades. However  even after Warren retired and the makeup of the court changed  his Court cast a shadow that extends to our own era.  In The Long Reach of the Sixties  Laura Kalman focuses on the late 1960s and early 1970s  when Presidents Johnson and Nixon attempted to dominate the Court and alter its course. Using newly released--and consistently entertaining--recordings of Lyndon Johnsons and Richard Nixons telephone conversations  she roots their efforts to mold the Court in their desire to protect their Presidencies. The fierce ideological battles--between the executive  legislative  and judicial branches--that ensued transformed the meaning of the Warren Court in American memory. Despite the fact that the Courts decisions generally reflected public opinion  the surrounding debate calcified the image of the Warren Court as activist and liberal. Abe Fortass embarrassing fall and Nixons campaign against liberal justices helped make the term \"activist Warren Court\" totemic for liberals and conservatives alike.  The fear of a liberal court has changed the appointment process forever  Kalman argues. Drawing from sources in the Ford  Reagan  Bush I  and Clinton presidential libraries  as well as the justices papers  she shows how the desire to avoid another Warren Court has politicized appointments by an order of magnitude. Among other things  presidents now almost never nominate politicians as Supreme Court justices (another response to Warren  who had been the governor of California). Sophisticated  lively  and attuned to the ironies of history  The Long Reach of the Sixties is essential reading for all students of the modern Court and U.S. political history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44986235977781,"sku":"ByrdShop_019995822X","price":35.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780199958221.jpg?v=1770893659","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-long-reach-of-the-sixties-lbj-nixon-and-the-making-of-the-contemporary-supreme-court","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}