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Hardcover in publisher’s non clipped dust-jacket. 238 pages. Illustrated. Signed by author on front free end-paper. First edition, first printing with full number line. A history of the men, contentious, quarrelsome, flawed, who never-the-less came “…as close to the ideal of the Platonic ‘philosopher-kings’ as American or world history has ever been.” No previous ownership marks. “Faculty author” sticker on front cover –at the time of its publication Bernstein was “an adjunct assistant professor of law at New York Law School, where he has taught courses on American legal history and law and literature.” A clean, square, unmarked copy. Near fine in a near fine dust-jacket.