Volume 39, Number 17 · October 22, 1992
How Independent is the Court?
By Cass R. Sunstein
Grand Inquests: The Historic Impeachments of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson
by William H. Rehnquist
Morrow, 303 pp., $23.00
The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change?
by Gerald N. Rosenberg
University of Chicago Press, 425 pp., $29.95
In 1922, Charles Garland, a twenty-one-year-old undergraduate at Harvard, received $800,000 from his father's estate. Believing that he was not entitled to money he had not earned, Garland made a grant to the American Fund for Public Service, which was dedicated to the support of movements for social reform. The committee administering the fund urged that a donation be made to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), in order to help bring legal actions in the courts to desegregate education.
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