Preface to the sixth edition
Preface to the first edition
The genesis and nature of judicial power
The establishment of the right to decide: 1789-1810
The Marshall court and the shaping of the nation : 1810-1835
The court under Taney : the natural history of judicial prestige
Constitutional evolution in the gilded age: 1865-1900
The judiciary and the regulatory state : 1900-1937
The court and postwar America : 1937-1959
Civil liberties, civil rights, and the Supreme Court
Judicial monitoring of the new American welfare state
Epilogue: the court of today and the lessons of history.