Intro
Contents
Prologue
Chapter One: "We Must Have Steel."
Chapter Two: Justice Harold Burton
Chapter Three: Attorney General Tom Clark
Chapter Four: The Court Truman Inherited and a Justice Abroad
Chapter Five: "The Very Nearly Indispensable Man"
Chapter Six: Death of a Chief Justice
Chapter Seven: "The General Utility Man of Government"
Chapter Eight: Open Warriors and Assassins
Chapter Nine: "A Man to Trust"
Chapter Ten: Meatless On-Strike Midterm Elections
Chapter Eleven: Labor's Troubled Waters
Chapter Twelve: The Chief Takes Charge

Chapter Thirteen: A Civil Service
Chapter Fourteen: Truman at the Lincoln Memorial
Chapter Fifteen: Shelley v. Kraemer: The Judicial Revolution Begins
Chapter Sixteen: Justice Douglas and the 1948 Presidential Election
Chapter Seventeen: The Vinson Mission
Chapter Eighteen: Justice Tom Clark
Chapter Nineteen: Justice Sherman Minton
Chapter Twenty: Civil Liberties and Loyalty
Chapter Twenty-One: The Path to Brown: First Steps
Chapter Twenty-Two: The Path to Brown: Unanimous Progress
Chapter Twenty-Three: Caution in the Wind

Chapter Twenty-Four: Monongahela River Valley Hope
Chapter Twenty-Five: The District Court Hearing
Chapter Twenty-Six: The Supreme Court Hearing
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Conference and Resolution
Chapter Twenty-Eight: "Zone of Twilight"
Chapter Twenty-Nine: A President's Nadir
Chapter Thirty: The Truman Court
Notes
Index