books by John Fabian Witt (destitute histories republic)

books by John Fabian Witt

books:

Patriots and Cosmopolitans: Hidden Histories of American Law
John Fabian Witt

Harvard University Press, 2007

Ranging widely from the founding era to Reconstruction, from the making of the modern state to its post-New Deal limits, John Fabian Witt illuminates the legal and constitutional foundations of American nationhood through the little-known stories of five patriots and critics. He shows how law and constitutionalism have powerfully shaped and been shaped by the experience of nationhood at key moments in American history. Founding Father ...

The Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law

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John Fabian Witt

Harvard University Press, 2004

Engrossing and illuminating book
Witt's book is the best of its kind -- it illuminates the history and legal developments of the turn-of-the-century modern factories and their beleagured workers with stories of the historical players, the thinkers, and the judges and legislators. Witt is accessible to all and I have not stopped thinking about the book and its significance to today's tort laws since.