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6 de jun. de 2021 · John Marshall Harlan would become the court’s sole defender of Black rights, whose scorching dissents lit a path to the 20 th century civil rights movement; Robert Harlan’s legacy would fade...
26 de dic. de 2021 · This newly discovered portrait showed James Harlan as a young man, in a way most people had never seen him before. Looking at the portrait prompted a variety of questions: where was this photo taken? When was this photo taken? Why did James look so sullen? Why his waistcoat was partially unbuttoned?
27 de jun. de 2021 · Among justices, Harlan, who served on the Court from 1877 to 1911, is what one biographer, Tinsley Yarbrough, called a “judicial enigma.” To Peter Canellos, the author of The Great Dissenter,...
The historical legacy of James Harlan of Mount Pleasant, an early and influential political leader in the Hawkeye State during the 19th century, still stands strong today due to the indelible impact he made on the history of Iowa and the nation.
- The Back Story
- The “Chinese Race” Question
- Holmes v. Harlan
- “Desperate Struggle”
- A “Most Emphatic” Moment
- Plessy Revisited
- Too Far … Or Too Tough?
RONALD COLLINS: Welcome, Peter. Before The Great Dissenter, your previous book was Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy. It’s a long conceptual stretch from a book about Sen. Kennedy to one about Justice John Marshall Harlan. What explains that? PETER CANELLOS: In each case I was drawn to the overall arc of the story. In the case of Sen. Ken...
In her otherwise laudatory New York Times reviewof your book, Jennifer Szalai wrote: “Canellos is protective of his biographical subject, straining to put a charitable gloss on some of Harlan’s more troubling comments from the bench, especially regarding what Harlan called ‘the Chinese race.’” What is your response to that? The book explores what I...
Second perhaps only to Chief Justice John Marshall, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes is often cast as the greatest Supreme Court jurist. In many ways, your biography can be read as contesting that claim and elevating Harlan to a seat higher than that of Holmes. Was Harlan truly a greater jurist than Holmes? I do believe that Harlan should have a place...
“Harlan was more than just a legal theorist,” you write. What was the measure of the man that prompted you to say that? What is the psychological arc of someone who once defended slavery and opposed the 13th Amendment but thereafter became one of the nation’s greatest champions of racial justice? To pursue the matter a little more: In a chapter tit...
You devote considerable attention to Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan & Trust Co., a 5-4 decision that struck down the federal income tax of 1894 as violative of Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution. As you describe it, conservatives saw the tax as “Socialism in action. Assault on American values. Destruction of property through taxation. The poor stor...
Given that there have been some 10 books on Plessy v. Ferguson, and countless scholarly articles on the case and Harlan’s famous dissent in it, what is there new to say about the case? In light of that, how did you set out to approach your discussion of Plessy? I took as a starting point the idea that most people who were interested in Harlan knew ...
Like other mortals, John Marshall Harlan’s feet touched the earth: What were his shortcomings, his mistakes in life or law or both? For example, might his opinion for the Court in Cumming v. Board of Education of Richmond County (1899) sanctioning de jure segregation of races in schools be seen as “grievous pettifoggery” as Richard Kluger put it in...
From 1853 to 1855, Harlan served as president of Iowa Wesleyan College, before being elected to the United States Senate in 1855 as a Free Soiler. Because of irregularities associated with that election, he ran for the Senate yet again in 1857, this time as a Republican -- having joined the newly created party in 1856 -- and successfully ...
5 de nov. de 2023 · James Harlan, « Français dans l’âme » à la tête de la cathédrale américaine de Paris. Portrait. La messe d’installation de James Harlan, nouveau doyen de la cathédrale épiscopalienne de Paris,...
