Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court’s Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America

 

In Supreme Inequality, Adam Cohen surveys the most significant Supreme Court rulings since the Nixon era and argues that only rarely has the Court in recent decades veered from its course of advancing inequality. His analysis shows many of the Warren Court’s greatest successes — in areas such as school desegregation, voting rights, and protecting workers — giving way to rulings favoring corporations and the most privileged Americans.