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It was in tolling the death of Chief Justice John Marshall in 1835 that the Liberty Bell cracked, never to ring again. An apt symbol of the man who shaped both court and country, whose life “reads like an early history of the United States,” as the Wall Street Journal noted, adding: Jean... read more

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WITH THOSE MODEST WORDS John Marshall commenced a terse autobiographical sketch for his old friend and colleague Joseph Story.

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  1. Jean Edward Smith (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: H. Holt & Co.
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1996
ISBN: 080501389X
Page Count: 747

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