What are some good sources for American political history reading?
Irons’s A People’s History of the Supreme Court is about Supreme Court cases from the perspective of the individuals who were actually parties to those cases. It’s by no means a complete treatise on American History, but it may help your friend to understand the historical context for these cases. (For a general treatise, there’s always Zinn’s People’s History of the United States, although that’s sort of depressing.) To follow up on Fupped Duck’s initial suggeston, I think Lazarus’s Closed Chambers is an excellent book (and, IMHO, better than The Bretheren — Lazarus got a bad rap, but his work seems better sourced than Woodward’s). Those behind-the-scenes books were wonderful (and captivating) additions to my legal education.
