Essential reading for scholars interested in nineteenth-century
political and legal history, American constitutional development,
Supreme Court politics, and judicial behavior.--Law and Politics
Book ReviewRequired reading for anyone interested in the
development of constitutional law and political thought in
America's Gilded Age.--Perspectives on Political ScienceKens
significantly refines our understanding of late-nineteenth-century
constitutionalism.--American Historical ReviewThis book is
carefully and thoroughly researched, drawing on a wide range of
primary and secondary sources. Kens has given us a fine
intellectual biography of a towering, if sometimes overlooked,
figure in American history.--Western Historical QuarterlyKens
describes and engages fairly both traditional and revisionists
Field scholarship and he offers balanced, sensible judgments about
Field and his contributions to American law and history. [This
book] will entertain and educate any reader interested in either
early California history or classical American legal
thought.--Western Legal History[Kens] balances extended analyses of
technical legal problems and constitutional issues with lively
descriptions of Field's days as a lawyer in California and
off-the-bench episodes from his later life.--Journal of American
History
Paul Kens has done a masterful job of making Stephen Field and his
jurisprudence understandable, and he has done so in a lucid and
indeed at times elegant manner.--Melvin I. Urofksy, author
of A March of LibertyLiterate, perceptive, and impressively
researched, this book clarifies long-ambiguous aspects of the
meaning of liberty in the Lincoln-McKinley presidential
decades.--Harold M. Hyman, author of A More Perfect UnionA
major contribution to our understanding of the jurisprudence of the
late nineteenth century.--James W. Ely, Jr., author of The
Chief Justiceship of Melville W. Fuller, 1888-1910This is history
of American political thought, of law and economic development, and
of law and politics, as well as a study of judicial activism. It is
an absolutely essential revision of what we know about Field and
laissez-faire.--Martin Shapiro, author of Who Guards the
GuardiansA fine study of one of our most interesting and important
justices. What is especially valuable is Kens' placement of the
issues addressed by Field in their social and political contexts.
The chapters on California are especially vivid and
illuminating.--Sanford Levinson, author of Constitutional
FaithAn incisive analysis of an extremely complex man and the law
he helped mold. Fresh, informed, and persuasive.--Gordon
Bakken, author of Practicing Law in Frontier California
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