The Chief Justiceship of John Marshall, 1801-1835

"It is rare indeed that the academic reappraisal of a frequently examined judicial leader, a towering one in American jurisprudence, produces results which may fundamentally change the way scholars evaluate such judicial leadership. Herbert Johnson's work on John Marshall's Chief Justiceship is one of those rare positive exceptions."—John R. Schmidhauser, University of Southern California

"General readers will be delighted to find such a balanced and comprehensive discussion of the history and historiography of the Marshall Court in this accessible form. Specialists will be struck by the painstaking scholarly research, erudition, fine writing, keen insight, and judicious inference."—American Historical Review

"One of the best works to date on the Marshall Court."—Choice