Nine scorpions in a bottle: great judges and cases of the Supreme Court

pt. I. Searching for the Foundations. 1. The Supreme Court and American Capitalism ; 2. Constitution and Court as Symbols ; 3. The Early Career of Judicial Activism ; 4. Minority Rule and the Constitutional Tradition ; 5. Keepers of the Covenant in Mythic America ; 6. Some Perspectives on the Court

pt. II. A Gallery of Greats. 7. John Marshall and the Campaign of History ; 8. The Great Ganglion That Was Holmes ; 9. Frankfurter on Holmes and the Austerity Theory ; 10. Justice Louis D. Brandeis and Judicial Activism ; 11. The Education of Hugo Black ; 12. Felix Frankfurter and the Essential Tension ; 13. The Mind and Style of Robert H. Jackson ; 14. William O. Douglas: True Militant

pt. III. The Interaction of Courts and Cultures. 15. The Vinson Regime, Caught in Midpassage ; 16. The Career of the Warren Court ; 17. Watergate as Constitutional Crisis ; 18. The Balancing Act of the Burger Court ; 19. The Rehnquist Court Enters History ; 20. The Bork Wars as Confirmation Crisis

Epilogue: Oliver Wendell Holmes Revisited

Max Lerner on Law and Justice in America (bibliography) / Robert Schmuhl.