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Ronald M. Labbe is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Jonathan Lurie is professor of history and adjunct professor of law at Rutgers University. Labbe and Lurie received the prestigious Scribes Book Award given by the American Society for Legal Writers for the original edition of this book.

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Praise for the original edition"Labb� and Lurie have painted, with graceful style, a magnificent panorama of a key episode of nineteenth-century legal history. . . . From their vivid description of the public health hazards afflicting nineteenth-century New Orleans to their superb chapter surveying the Supreme Court led by Chief Justice Chase, this is compellingly readable history."--Journal of American History"The authors have done a remarkable job unraveling the complex threads of this intriguing legal history."--Louisiana History

"An outstanding and illuminating book, deeply researched and beautifully written."--Lawrence M. Friedman, author of A History of American Law

Praise for the original edition"Labbe and Lurie have painted, with graceful style, a magnificent panorama of a key episode of nineteenth-century legal history. . . . From their vivid description of the public health hazards afflicting nineteenth-century New Orleans to their superb chapter surveying the Supreme Court led by Chief Justice Chase, this is compellingly readable history."--Journal of American History"The authors have done a remarkable job unraveling the complex threads of this intriguing legal history."--Louisiana History

"An outstanding and illuminating book, deeply researched and beautifully written."--Lawrence M. Friedman, author of A History of American Law

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