SUPREME INEQUALITY by Adam Cohen was a very disheartening and disappointing read. Cohen subtitled his book "The Supreme Court's Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America," but he chose to focus primarily (and narrowly) on financial issues, referring rather frequently to income and wealth. He includes chapters on topics like the poor, education, and campaign finance. What happened to civil rights and their impact on economic opportunity? Cohen only mentions abortion 14 times, gender, 4 times, and terms like immigration, Dreamers and DACA not at all. He refers to global warming once, never uses the phrase gun violence and does cover Voter IDs (there is a chapter titled democracy). I could provide more examples like his failure to even mention the rulings on Family Medical Leave Act, childcare, etc. These are all issues of concern to my students AND, in the context of this book, many are related to Cohen's work deciphering the Court's role relative to income inequality, right? He does provide numerous other examples (like referring to age discrimination, welfare benefits, equal pay for equal work) and argues that "the reality of the Supreme Court has been very different from the idealized version" – one in which "the Court is generally presented as the branch of government that looks out for vulnerable minorities and ensures fairness for all." The text is about 450 pages long, roughly a fourth of which includes Acknowledgments, Notes (essentially indecipherable in the ARC), Photograph Credits, and an Index. Although SUPREME INEQUALITY received a starred review from Booklist, the Advance Reader Copy (for which I am grateful) was riddled with missing letters, dates, and statistics. It is understandable that it was not in final form and I have experienced this before, but not to this great an extent.

This book could not be reviewed due to a faulty digital file. At such time as I am able to read the title I will return and amend the review for content.