| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.4

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Book Review

The Federal Appointments Process: A Constitutional and Historical Analysis. By Michael J. Gerhardt. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2000. xiv, 400 pp. $37.95, ISBN 0-8223-2528-4.)

The subtitle of this encyclopedic study could well be "everything you might want to learn about the federal appointments process but did not know enough to ask." Michael J. Gerhardt, professor of law at the College of William and Mary Law School, brings conceptual order to one of the more chaotic aspects of American national government and politics. Relying on the methodologies of "historical institutionalism," he seeks to answer the following questions in the context of presidential appointments to the federal courts and administrative agencies:

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