Linda Greenhouse began covering the Supreme Court for The New York Times in 1978. With the exception of two years during the mid-1980's, during which she covered Congress, she served as the paper's regular Supreme Court correspondent until 2008. Previously, she covered local and state government and politics for the Times in New York, and was chief of the newspaper's legislative bureau in Albany. She has appeared as a Washington Week panelist since 1980.
She is a graduate of Radcliffe College, where she currently serves on the advisory committee to the Schlesinger Library on the History of American Women. She earned a Master of Studies in Law degree from Yale Law School, and has several honorary degrees.
For her coverage of the Court, she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Journalism (beat reporting) in 1998. In 2004, she received the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and the John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.
For 30 years, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Linda Greenhouse chronicled the activities of the U.S. Supreme Court and its justices as a correspondent for the New York Times. In this Very Short Introduction, she draws on her deep knowledge of the court's history and of its written and unwritten rules to show readers how the Supreme Court really works. Greenhouse offers a fascinating institutional biography of a place and its people - men and women - who exercise great power but whose names and faces are unrecognized by many Americans and whose work often appears cloaked in mystery. How do cases get to the Supreme Court? How do the justices go about deciding them? What special role does the chief justice play? What do the law clerks do? How does the court relate to the other branches of government? Greenhouse answers these questions by depicting the justices as they confront deep constitutional issues or wrestle with the meaning of confusing federal statutes. Throughout, the author examines many individual Supreme Court cases to illustrate points under discussion, ranging from Marbury v. Madison, the seminal case which established judicial review, to the recent District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), which struck down the District of Columbia's gun-control statute and which was, surprisingly, the first time in its history that the Court issued an authoritative interpretation of the Second Amendment. To add perspective, Greenhouse also compares the Court to foreign courts, revealing interesting differences. For instance, no other country in the world has chosen to bestow life tenure on its judges. A superb overview packed with telling details, this volume offers a matchless introduction to one of the pillars of American government.
硬着头皮读完,很多地方读中文不知道什么意思。大体上看懂和理解50%吧。名字叫通识读本,应该是面对美国本土公民而言,外国读者没有相关历史背景,很多事件的审判不知所云,也没有关系。 总体感觉美国最高法院是用来维护宪法权威,对各州和国会和总统的权力限制机构。对于具体...
评分《美国最高法院通识读本》,作为“牛津通识读本”中译本的新成员,一望而知是那种微言大义、对书中所及要为专家与白丁一起奔向满分而奋斗的文本,主角又是构成所谓“梦想国度”立国根底之一的那幢“大理石神殿”,免不了叫人先注意到由谁来执笔写作。 本书作者琳达•格林豪...
评分译本很短,对最高法院的解读限于以美国《宪法》第三条规定的范围,并无其它解读。总而言,内容过少,出版时可能为使小本略显厚度,而附了大量英文索引入译词,并将原版英文附注于后,正文内容约296页,中文译文仅占105页,原文其它约190页,可见内容之少,仅约三分之一余。
评分记得法院组织我们到中学进行普法宣传的时候,老师向好几百号学生介绍说今天请律师来我们校进行青春路上,我们与法同行的讲座。那一瞬间,我愣住了。我虽然知道身边很多人对法官和律师分不清楚,但是,我万万没想到的是作为授业解惑的老师居然也分不清二者区别。那一刻,...
评分牛津的这套系列通识读本非常好,不厚的一本书,讲述了美国最高法院的前世今生,了解了美国最高法院的权利和地位,还有最高法院的大法官是那些人。美国的法律与大陆法系完全不同,平时很少有机会去了解这些内容,而且这书中的案例和判例都写的十分具体,让人明白是怎么样的事件...
A good framework to understand the us Supreme Court for casual readers. 最後提供的擴展閱讀書單也很有幫助。
评分传说有了译本
评分扫盲书,清楚明白好看
评分传说有了译本
评分燈塔國令人感動。
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