The American Supreme Court

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 modern 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.