The Tempting Of America (The Political Seduction of the Law) - Hardcover

Robert H. Bork

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0029037611 ISBN 13: 9780029037614

Publisher: Free Press, 1989

Synopsis

The controversial Supreme Court nominee offers a statement of his social and legal philosophy and presents a profound argument that politics is threatening the foundation of American law

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About the Author:

Robert H. Bork has served as Solicitor General and Acting Attorney General of the United States, and as a United States Court of Appeals judge. A former professor of law at Yale Law School, he is currently a professor at Ave Maria School of Law, a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and the Tad and Dianne Taube Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Also the author of the bestselling The Tempting of America, he lives with his wife in McLean, Virginia.

From Library Journal:

Bork portrays the Senate's rejection of his nomination to the Supreme Court as one skirmish in a broader battle over the political role of American judges. For a journalist's account of the nomination uproar, see Ethan Bronner's Battle for Justice: How the Bork Nomination Shook America ( LJ 9/1/89).-- Ed. On one side, Bork claims, are those who--regardless of personal convictions--adhere to the intentions of the Founding Fathers in interpreting the U.S. Constitution. Arrayed against them are various liberal groups and their allies in the law schools, who disdain the political process and promote judicial lawmaking to achieve their goals. Bork convincingly demonstrates that some opponents of his confirmation distorted his record and his views. However, in refusing to admit the good faith of opposing scholars, he does little to encourage dialog on constitutional interpretation.
- G. Alan Tarr, Rutgers Univ., Camden, N.J.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Free Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0029037611
• ISBN 13: 9780029037614
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 432