I Dissent

Get to know celebrated Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the first picture book about her life. (more)

Get to know celebrated Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the first picture book about her life. (less)

For the first time, a collection of dissents from the most famous Supreme Court cases. If American history can truly be ... (more)

For the first time, a collection of dissents from the most famous Supreme Court cases. If American history can truly be traced through the majority decisions in landmark Supreme Court cases, then what about the dissenting opinions? In issues of race, gender, privacy, workers' rights, and more, would advances have been impeded or failures rectified if the dissenting opinions were in fact the majority opinions? In offering thirteen famous dissents -- from Marbury v. Madison and Brown v. Board of Education to Griswold v. Connecticut and Lawrence v. Texas, each edited with the judges' eloquence preserved -- renowned Supreme Court scholar Mark Tushnet reminds us that court decisions are not pronouncements issued by the utterly objective, they are in fact political statements from highly intelligent but partisan people. (less)