Albert J. Beveridge’s four-volume biography of Chief Justice John Marshall won the Pulitzer Prize and remains a landmark of American historical biography. Volume 4 covers Marshall’s final two decades on the Supreme Court, during which he issued landmark opinions that cemented federal power and shaped the constitutional framework of the United States well into the twentieth century.
Beveridge writes with a lawyer’s precision and a politician’s flair — he was himself a U.S. Senator — making this both scholarly and compulsively readable. Download this free EPUB for the concluding volume of a monumental life of the jurist who defined American constitutional law.