The Life of John Marshall.

BEVERIDGE, Albert J.

$1,500.00

Item Number: 132009

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916-1919.

First edition of Beveridge’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, four volumes bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, illustrated, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Marshall to each volume. In near fine condition. A sharp set.

John J. Marshall was the longest-serving Chief Justice and the fourth longest-serving justice in US Supreme Court history, Marshall dominated the Court for over three decades and played a significant role in the development of the American legal system. Most notably, he reinforced the principle that federal courts are obligated to exercise judicial review, by disregarding purported laws if they violate the Constitution. Thus, Marshall cemented the position of the American judiciary as an independent and influential branch of government. American historian Albert J. Beveridge won a Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for this extensive biography of Marshall.