Epilogue. Founding lawyers as partisans: making the judiciary -- Lawyers unifying a nation -- Lawyers for equal rights for all citizens -- Lawyers and the issue of slavery -- Lawyers at war with one another -- Lawyers reconstructing the South -- Lawyers and the "search for order" -- Lawyers competing for status: law as science? -- Lawyers organizing their profession -- Lawyers for social progress -- Exporting progress: lawyers as missionaries -- Progress on a national scale -- Progress interrupted -- Institutional reforms -- Lawyers in the New Deal -- Patriotic lawyers -- Lawyers seeking world peace -- The Cold War: lawyers and loyalties -- Civil rights lawyers -- Lawyers for civil liberties and "The Great Society" -- Private lawyers enforcing public law -- Lawyers as human capitalists -- Lawyers deterring public disorder -- Lawyers in disorder: Watergate -- New law governing lawyers and legal institutions -- Epilogue.
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