In a time of total war: the federal judiciary and the national defense - 1940-1954 (New edition.)

A judicial, military and political history of the period between 1941 and 1954, this book is also a United States legal history of both World War II and the early Cold War.

Civil liberties, mass conscription, expanded military jurisdiction, property rights, labour relations and war crimes arising from the conflict were all issues to come before the federal judiciary during this period and well beyond since the Supreme Court and the lower courts heard appeals from the government's wartime decisions well into the 1970s.