The Dred Scott Case, Its Significance in American Law and Politics [Author Inscribed]

New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. First Edition. Quarto in xii, 741 pages; 24 cm About very good(-), with minor discolorative sunning to portions of cloth; in a tattered, about good jacket now in archival mylar. . Hardcover. ISBN: 9780195024036, 9780195145885

Author signed and inscribed to Juan Cole. A detailed study of this famous case of judicial failure, and discusses the legal bases of slavery, the debate over the Constitution, and the dispute over slavery and continental expansion. "This book confirms Fehrenbacher's preeminence among historians of the sectional controversy."--Stanley I. Kutler, The Journal of American History: