A review by avvid
A People's History of the Supreme Court: The Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions Have Shaped Our Constitution by Peter Irons

3.0

I read the ebook version, and there were so many errors - typographical, punctuation, and spelling - that parts were almost unreadable. I wish I had noted the surname that was spelled so many different ways, I came away not even knowing what it was supposed to be in order to google it. I would characterize the editing process as “reckless”, or possibly just “none”. I felt like I was reading a first draft.

Ok. So aside from the assault on the reading experience, the book was well-researched, but maybe a little ambitious to condense into one volume. Some cases went on and on. The backstories of the justices and the politics behind their appointments were sometimes given short shrift as a result. This could have been a bit better.