| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.1

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Book Review

The Eisenhower Court and Civil Liberties. By Theodore M. Vestal. (Westport: Praeger, 2002. xiv, 329 pp. $64.95, ISBN 0-275-97284-4.)

This clearly written, heavily documented work is an examination of the United States Supreme Court's treatment of civil liberties from 1953 to 1962, the first half of Earl Warren's remarkable tenure as chief justice. The author, a professor of political science at Oklahoma State University, argues that, prior to the emergence of the Warren court's activist, result-oriented majority in 1962, the Court was dominated by a group of more moderate Eisenhower appointees operating in conjunction with the restraint-oriented justices already on the Court. He further argues that this more judicially restrained Court, operating in an environment poisoned by fears of Communist subversion and the bitter struggle over segregation, nevertheless achieved "a generally more libertarian position in civil liberties" (p. xi). For these reasons, he concludes that the Court's civil liberties decisions from 1953 to 1962 were the product of a distinct Eisenhower court.

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