| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.1

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The Legalist Reformation: Law, Politics, and Ideology in New York, 1920–1980. By William E. Nelson. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. 457 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2591-3.)

From humble origins in one state's courtrooms grew the ideology that came to define American social and legal culture, that "matured into the hope of the progressive world." Decades of creative judging in a New York riven by conflict built case by case a new, socially responsive ideology prizing liberty, equality, dignity, and economic opportunity. That, argues William E. Nelson in this ambitious and important book, was The Legalist Reformation, a movement that not only changed law but "brought real liberty, equality and dignity to increasing numbers of New Yorkers." . . .

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