American Maccabee:
“Porwancher is an exquisite storyteller.”
—Lila Corwin Berman, New York University
“Beautifully written. . . . Its interpretation is nuanced and balanced, and its scholarship is deep and wide.”
—Kathleen Dalton, author of Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life
“With the insight and erudition his readers have come to expect, Andrew Porwancher explores the complicated issue of Jewish life in early twentieth-century America through the actions and words of a president he shows to be equally complicated.”
—H. W. Brands, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton
*Journal of the American Revolution Book-of-the-Year Award*
*Independent Publisher Book Award (Silver Medal-Biography)*
*Foreword Reviews Book-of-the-Year Finalist (History)*
“Provocative and intriguing” —Annette Gordon-Reed, winner of the Pulitzer Prize
“Remarkable. . . .A major contribution.”—Jonathan D. Sarna, winner of the National Jewish Book Award
“Truly a pathbreaking work”—Stephen F. Knott, author of Alexander Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth
“Ingenious” —Jewish Book Council
“Innovative . . . . An invaluable contribution.” —American Nineteenth Century History
“Radical . . . . Porwancher’s prose is extraordinarily bright.” —Reviews in American History
“Absorbing…persuasive.” —Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs
“Fantastic…reads like a detective novel.” —Anglican and Episcopal History
The Prophet of Harvard Law is jointly authored by Andrew Porwancher and three of his former students: Jake Mazeitis, Taylor Jipp, and Austin Coffey. It appears in the University Press of Kansas’s series “American Political Thought.”
“[W]ell-written and well-researched . . . This book should be required reading not only for students but for judges as well." —Melvin Urofsky, professor emeritus of history, Virginia Commonwealth University
"Deeply researched, this is the first volume to limn the influence of Thayer and his followers"—Philippa Strum, author of On Account of Sex: Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the Making of Gender Equality Law
The Devil Himself:
A Tale of Honor, Insanity, and the Birth of Modern America
"In this intriguing book, Andrew Porwancher vividly narrates a classic story." —Alan Taylor, author of The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History
"Porwancher deftly handles the particulars of this story of love and retribution." —H.W. Brands, author of Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography
The Prophet of Harvard Law:
James Bradley Thayer and his Legal Legacy
*Independent Publisher Book Award (Bronze Medal-Biography)*
*Foreword Reviews Book-of-the-Year Finalist (Political and Social Sciences)*
“Deeply researched, this is the first volume to limn the influence of Thayer and his followers, helping fill what has been a gap in our understanding of the evolution of the law.”—Philippa Strum, author of Louis D. Brandeis: Justice for the People
“In this well-written and well-researched study, Andrew Porwancher and his students give us not only an acute analysis of Thayer’s jurisprudence but also of his influence on Holmes, Brandeis, Pound, and others. This book should be required reading not only for students but for judges as well.”—Melvin Urofsky, author of Louis D. Brandeis: A Life
John Henry Wigmore and the Rules of Evidence:
The Hidden Origins of Modern Law
*Scribes Award for Best Work of Legal Scholarship—Honorable Mention*
“[The book] will become the standard work on the subject.” —Noah Feldman, Harvard Law School
“flawlessly edited and produced.”—Pennsylvania Bar Association
“It evidences a close reading of Wigmore’s work and extensive work in the archives at Harvard and Northwestern, bringing to light a good deal of new material on the connections among important figures in ‘legal modernism.’”—Robert P. Burns, Northwestern University School of Law