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Justice of Shattered Dreams: Samuel Freeman Miller and the Supreme Court during the Civil War Era. By Michael A. Ross. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c. 2003. Pp. xxvi, 323. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8071-2924-0; cloth, $69.95, ISBN 0-8071-2868-6.)
At the outset, a bit of so-called truth in advertising is appropriate. I eagerly examined Michael A. Ross's dissertation on which this book is based while my co-author and I were preparing our history of the Slaughter-House cases (1873), also published in 2003. Further, I served as an anonymous referee when one of his chapters was published in article form. I thought the dissertation was superb and, having had this opportunity to read the published book, emphasize the point once again.
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