Josiah B. Brownell Reviews: States' Rights and Social Progress: A Review of Contempt of Court: The Turn of the Century Lynching that Launched a Hundred Years of Federalism - By Mark Curriden & Leroy Phillips, Jr.

Contempt of Court: The Turn of the Century Lynching that Launched a Hundred Years of federalism is a fascinating and important narrative on a topic that has been largely ignored in the literature. It is both a jurisprudential history of one of the seedlings of modern constitutional federalism, and a powerful human drama with obvious biblical parallels about innocence, fear, racism, vengeance and a grave injustice.