Prelude | p. ix |
Selecting and Ranking Great Justices: Poll Results | p. 1 |
John Marshall: The Supreme Court's Louis Armstrong | p. 23 |
Joseph Story and a National System of Law | p. 35 |
Roger B. Taney: A Jacksonian Chief Justice Who Favored "Dixie" on the Bench | p. 51 |
John Marshall Harlan the Elder: Color-Blind Justice | p. 61 |
Oliver Wendell Holmes: The Evolution of a Great Justice | p. 74 |
Louis D. Brandeis: The Justice as Prophet and Teacher | p. 90 |
Benjamin Nathan Cardozo: Striking a Balance Between Stability and Progress | p. 99 |
Hugo L. Black: Constitutional Literalist and Absolutist | p. 132 |
Felix Frankfurter: Constitutionalist Progressive | p. 142 |
William O. Douglas: A Judge for the 21st Century | p. 158 |
Charles Evans Hughes: An Eighteenth Century Statesman Redivivus | p. 177 |
Harlan Fiske Stone: New Deal Prudence | p. 190 |
Earl Warren: Justice as Fairness | p. 200 |
William J. Brennan, Jr. and Human Dignity | p. 215 |
William H. Rehnquist and the Conservative Counterrevolution | p. 232 |
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor: Tall in the Saddle | p. 246 |
Why No More Giants on the Supreme Court: The Personalities and the Times | p. 262 |
List of Contributors | p. 275 |
Index | p. 277 |
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