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.
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评分 评分申欣旺/文 一群中国人,热切地读一本关于美国最高法院的书,这种现象多少有点令人感觉复杂。最近《美国最高法院通识读本》中译本面世,很快便在销售排行榜上占据重要位置。 这是一本很“简单”的书。和中国的作者习惯大部头不一样,整本书翻译成中文,不过寥寥100页...
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很好读的一本口袋书,很适合排队热饭/买咖啡/坐校车的时候阅读。(每次都是赶着还书deadline才想起来要看(羞愧
评分很好读的一本口袋书,很适合排队热饭/买咖啡/坐校车的时候阅读。(每次都是赶着还书deadline才想起来要看(羞愧
评分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。
评分简明扼要、主旨清晰,读时酣畅淋漓,读完意犹未尽,也的确如这本书的目的“stimulating”相符,值得一看。
评分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。
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