The Great Dissenter av Peter S. Canellos

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<b>The “superb” (<i>The Guardian</i>) biography of an American who stood against all the forces of Gilded Age America to fight for civil rights and economic freedom: Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan.</b><BR><BR>They say that history is written by the victors. But not in the case of the most famous dissenter on the Supreme Court. Almost a century after his death, John Marshall Harlan’s words helped end segregation and gave us our civil rights and our modern economic freedom.<BR><BR>But his legacy would not have been possible without the courage of Robert Harlan, a slave who John’s father raised like a son in the same household. After the Civil War, Robert emerges as a political leader. With Black people holding power in the Republican Party, it is Robert who helps John land his appointment to the Supreme Court.<BR><BR>At first, John is awed by his fellow justices, but the country is changing. Northern whites are prepared to take away black rights to app