{"product_id":"9781616145729","title":"Young Thurgood: The Making of a Supreme Court Justice","description":"\u003cb\u003eLike the movie \u003ci\u003eMarshall\u003c\/i\u003e, this book--the only biography of Thurgood Marshall to be endorsed by Marshall’s immediate family--focuses on his early civil rights \u003cb\u003estruggles and \u003c\/b\u003esuccesses before \u003ci\u003eBrown v. Board of Education.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThurgood Marshall was the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century. He transformed the nation's legal landscape by challenging the racial segregation that had relegated millions to second-class citizenship. He won twenty-nine of thirty-three cases before the United States Supreme Court, was a federal appeals court judge, served as the US solicitor general, and, for twenty-four years, sat on the Supreme Court. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarshall is best known for achievements after he relocated to New York in 1936 to work for the NAACP. But Marshall's personality, attitudes, priorities, and work habits had crystallized during earlier years in Maryland. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis work is the first close examination of the formative period in Marshall's life. As the author shows, Thurgood Marshall was a fascinating man of contrasts. He fought for racial justice without becoming a racist. Simultaneously idealistic and pragmatic, Marshall was a passionate advocate, yet he maintained friendly relationships with his opponents. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eYoung Thurgood\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how Marshall's distinctive traits were molded by events, people, and circumstances early in his life. Professor Gibson presents fresh information about Marshall's family, youth, and education. He describes Marshall's key mentors, the special impact of his high school and college competitive debating, his struggles to establish a law practice during the Great Depression, and his first civil rights cases. The author sheds new light on the NAACP and its first lawsuits in the campaign that led to the 1954\u003ci\u003e Brown v. Board of Education\u003c\/i\u003e school desegregation decision. He also corrects some of the often-repeated stories about Marshall that are inaccurate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe only biography of Thurgood Marshall to be endorsed by Marshall’s immediate family, \u003ci\u003eYoung Thurgood\u003c\/i\u003e is an exhaustively researched and engagingly written work that everyone interested in law, civil rights, American history, and biography will want to read.","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield Publishers, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176188494064,"sku":"9781616145729","price":26.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781616145729_p0.jpg?v=1769904176","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781616145729","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}