May It Please the Court : The Most Significant Oral Arguments Made before the Supreme Court since 1955 (book + six 90-minute audio cassettes)

New York: The New Press , 1993. Fine condition in a Fine dust jacket and Fine slipcase. Not price clipped ($30.00 on DJ/ $75.00 for set in slipcase). No chips. No tears. No creases. Bright, shiny, clean, square, and tight. Not a remainder. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. In addition to the book (ISBN: 1565840461), there is a plastic clam-shell case (ISBN: 1565840356) containing six 90-minute audio tapes of actual US Supreme Court oral arguments and questioning. A slipcase neatly encloses both the book & tape case. This set provides printed text, transcripts and audio cassettes of 23 live recordings of landmark cases argued before the US Supreme Court. Included are excerpts from the court's opinions, background to each case, and a bibliography. These transcripts were made available to the public for the first time with this publication. You can read the actual words and hear the voices of attorneys and justices including Thurgood Marshall, Abe Fortas, Earl Warren, Archibald Cox, Laurence Tribe, Sarah Weddington, Robert Bork, Hugo Black, Warren Burger, William Rehnquist, Sanda Day O'Connor, etc. Narration by Peter Irons identifies the speakers and puts the arguments in context. Some of the landmark cases included here are abortion rights (Roe v. Wade), flag burning, school desegregation, capital punishment, right to counsel, sexual orientation, Miranda rights, interracial marriage, reverse discrimination, prayer in school, etc. . Third printing. Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine DJ / Fine slipcase. 8vo. xxiv, 375pp.