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Last Lion) intertwines in this original and eye-opening biography the lives of Supreme Court justice John Marshall Harlan and his rumored half-brother, Robert Harlan, who was born a slave. Appointed to the court by President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1877 âas a kind of human olive branch to the South,â Kentucky-born Harlan was the lone dissenting voice in the Civil Rights Cases of 1883 and
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Ferguson in 1896, decisions that established the legal precedent for enforcing racial discrimination and segregation. Canellos contends that Harlanâs egalitarian impulses were informed by growing up alongside Robert, the rumored son of Harlanâs father and an enslaved woman, who made a fortune in the California Gold Rush and became a political power broker in Cincinnati. The second half of the book examines the cases that defined Harlanâs judicial legacy and their lasting impact on issues ranging from income tax to civil rights; Canellos notes that Harlanâs d
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