@article{1477938, recid = {1477938}, author = {Kaczorowski, Robert J., }, title = {The Politics of Judicial Interpretation : The Federal Courts, Department of Justice, and Civil Rights, 1866-1876 /}, pages = {1 online resource (256 p.)}, abstract = {This landmark work of Constitutional and legal history is the leading account of the ways in which federal judges, attorneys, and other law officers defined a new era of civil and political rights in the South and implemented the revolutionary 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments during Reconstruction. "Should be required reading . . . for all historians, jurists, lawyers, political scientists, and government officials who in one way or another are responsible for understanding and interpreting our civil rights past."-Harold M. Hyman, Journal of Southern History "Important, richly researched. . . . the fullest account now available."-American Journal of Legal History}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1477938}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823293179}, }