Up to 90 off textbooks at amazon canada plus free two day shipping for six months when you sign up for amazon prime for students. This new edition of this classic history of the supreme court discusses the selection nomination and appointment of each of the justices who have sat on the us supreme court since 1789 abraham provides a fascinating account of the presidential motivations behind each nomination examining how each appointees performance on the bench fulfilled or disappointed presidential expectations. Justices and presidents a political history of appointments to the supreme courtby henry j abraham new york oxford university press 1974 310 pp 1000. Start by marking justices and presidents a political history of appointments to the supreme court as want to read a political history of appointments to the supreme court write a review aug 12 2015 frank stein rated it liked it i read this mainly because i thought it would give me a series of mini bios of the 112 supreme court justices in american history along with a decent . Justices and presidents a political history of appointments to the supreme court by henry j abraham new york oxford uni versity press 1974 310 pp 1000 this excellent book by henry j abraham now professor of political science at the university of virginia after several years of teaching at the university of pennsylvania is not a work on the relationship of church and state if