Palmer compares two chief justices who molded American constitutional law, and how they are remembered - canonized and cursed. Spine ends gently bumped. Jacket rubbed with small chips and tears, spine sunned, in Brodart. Inscribed on the front end paper ""To Frank T. Gallagher and George P. Madden with the sincere regards of the author. Ben W. Palmer. 3-23-40."" Gallagher, soon to become a Minnesota Supreme Court justice and Madden, recently a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives, were law partners in Waseca, Minnesota.