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November 20, 2007
Christine L. Nemacheck, '90
Strategic Selection: Presidential Nomination of Supreme Court Judges From Herbert Hoover Through George W. Bush, University of Virginia Press, 2007.
The book: This book makes heavy use of presidential papers to reconstruct the politics of nominee selection from Herbert Hoover's appointment of Charles Evan Hughes in 1930 through President George W. Bush's nomination of Samuel Alito in 2005. Christine L. Nemacheck brings to light firsthand evidence of selection politics and the influence of political actors, such as members of Congress and presidential advisors, from the initial stages of formulating a short list through the president's final selection of a nominee. She then constructs a theoretical framework that allows her to assess the factors affecting a president's selection process.
The author: Christine L. Nemacheck is assistant professor in the Department of Government at the College of William and Mary. She previously taught at Iowa State University. In addition to this book, her work has also appeared in "Congress and the Presidency" and a number of edited volumes.
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