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helios January 17 2012, 18:04:36 UTC
What remains of the original suggestions for possible further reading:

Our eleven chief justices; a history of the Supreme court in terms of their personalities (1938) (1)

Melville Weston Fuller, Chief Justice of the United States, 1888-1910 (2)

The origins of the American income tax: the Revenue Act of 1894 and its aftermath / Richard J. Joseph (3)

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helios June 30 2012, 01:47:07 UTC
Possible deep background--revised:

Pamela Brandwein, Reconstructing Reconstruction: The Supreme Court and the Production of Historical Truth. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1999.

Charles P. Curtis Jr. Lions Under the Throne. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1947.

Howard Jay Graham, Everyman's Constitution: Historical Essays on the Fourteenth Amendment, the "Conspiracy Theory," and American Constitutionalism. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1968

Louis Hartz, The Liberal Tradition in America: An Interpretation of American Political Thought Since the Revolution. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1955; Second Harvest Edition, San Diego: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1991.

Michael A. Ross. Justice of Shattered Dreams: Samuel Freeman Miller and the Supreme Court during the Civil War Era. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003.

Immanuel Wallerstein. The Modern World-System. Vol. 4. Centrist Liberalism Triumphant, 1789-1914. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011.

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