Ideas with Consequences: The Federalist Society and the Conservative Counterrevolution

by Amanda Hollis-Brusky

Book Overview

There are few intellectual movements in modern American political history more successful than the Federalist Society. Created in 1982 to counterbalance what its founders considered a liberal legal establishment, the organization gradually evolved into the conservative legal establishment, and membership is all but required for any conservative lawyer who hopes to enter politics or the judiciary. It claims 40,000 members, including four Supreme Court...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199385521
• ISBN13: 9780199385522
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.3"