Arguing About Slavery: The Great Battle in the United States Congress. (1999 Survey of Books Related to the Law) (book reviews) (book reviews)

Michigan Law Review, May, 1999 by Mark, Gregory A.

ARGUING ABOUT SLAVERY: THE GREAT BATTLE IN THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS. By William Lee Miller. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1996. Pp. 577. $35.

When was the last time you read a serious, recently published work of constitutional history that did not deal mainly with the work of the Supreme Court? When, even among those works, did the author look beyond the immediate litigants to give the reader a sense of an evolving constitutional culture -- a culture in symbiosis with the larger political and social culture -- its eddies and byways, as well as its mainstream?

My strong hunch is that anyone who can triumphantly respond to the implicit condemnation of narrowness in these questions will do so in large measure having read either or perhaps both William Lee...

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