(READ-PDF!) The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America's Judicial Hero Full
                      
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The “superb” (The Guardian) biography of an American who stood against all the forces of Gilded
Age America to fight for civil rights and economic freedom: Supreme Court Justice John Marshall
Harlan.They say that history is written by the victors. But not in the case of the most famous
dissenter on the Supreme Court. Almost a century after his death, John Marshall Harlan’s words
helped end segregation and gave us our civil rights and our modern economic freedom. But his
legacy would not have been possible without the courage of Robert Harlan, a slave who John’s
father raised like a son in the same household. After the Civil War, Robert emerges as a political
leader. With Black people holding power in the Republican Party, it is Robert who helps John land
his appointment to the Supreme Court. At first, John is awed by his fellow justices, but the country
is changing. Northern whites are prepared to take away black rights to appease the South. Giant
trusts are monopolizing entire industries. Against this onslaught, the Supreme Court seemed all
too willing to strip away civil rights and invalidate labor protections. So as case after case comes
before the court, challenging his core values, John makes a fateful decision: He breaks with his
colleagues in fundamental ways, becoming the nation’s prime defender of the rights of Black
people, immigrant laborers, and people in distant lands occupied by the US. Harlan’s dissents,
particularly in Plessy v. Ferguson, were widely read and a source of hope for decades. Thurgood
Marshall called Harlan’s Plessy dissent his “Bible”—and his legal roadmap to overturning
segregation. In the end, Harlan’s words built the foundations for the legal revolutions of the New
Deal and Civil Rights eras. Spanning from the Civil War to the Civil Rights movement and beyond,
The Great Dissenter is a “magnificent” (Douglas Brinkley) and “thoroughly researched” (The New
York Times) rendering of the American legal system’s most significant failures and most inspiring
successes.
 
 
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