Table of Contents
Prologue xi
Chapter 1 "We Must Have Steel." 3
Chapter 2 Justice Harold Burton 11
Chapter 3 Attorney General Tom Clark 23
Chapter 4 The Court Truman Inherited and a Justice Abroad 31
Chapter 5 "The Very Nearly Indispensable Man" 43
Chapter 6 Death of a Chief Justice 51
Chapter 7 "The General Utility Man of Government" 61
Chapter 8 Open Warriors and Assassins 65
Chapter 9 "A Man to Trust" 73
Chapter 10 Meatless On-Strike Midterm Elections 79
Chapter 11 Labor's Troubled Waters 87
Chapter 12 The Chief Takes Charge 95
Chapter 13 A Civil Service 103
Chapter 14 Truman at the Lincoln Memorial 111
Chapter 15 Shelley v. Kraemer. The Judicial Revolution Begins 119
Chapter 16 Justice Douglas and the 1948 Presidential Election 129
Chapter 17 The Vinson Mission 137
Chapter 18 Justice Tom Clark 147
Chapter 19 Justice Sherman Minton 159
Chapter 20 Civil Liberties and Loyalty 165
Chapter 21 The Path to Brown: First Steps 181
Chapter 22 The Path to Brown: Unanimous Progress 189
Chapter 23 Caution in the Wind 199
Chapter 24 Monongahela River Valley Hope 205
Chapter 25 The District Court Hearing 215
Chapter 26 The Supreme Court Hearing 223
Chapter 27 Conference and Resolution 233
Chapter 28 "Zone of Twilight" 241
Chapter 29 A President's Nadir 247
Chapter 30 The Truman Court 255
Notes 259
Index 289
