"We must have steel" -- Justice Harold Burton -- Attorney General Tom Clark -- The Court Truman inherited and a justice abroad -- "The very nearly indispensable man" -- Death of a Chief Justice -- "The general utility man of government" -- Open warriors and assassins -- "A man to trust" -- Meatless on-strike mid-term elections -- Labor's troubled waters -- The Chief takes charge -- A civil service -- Truman at the Lincoln Memorial -- Shelley v. Kraemer : the judicial revolution begins -- Justice Douglas and the 1948 presidential election -- The Vinson mission -- Justice Tom Clark -- Justice Sherman Minton -- Civil liberties and loyalty -- The path to Brown : unanimous progress -- Caution in the wind -- Monongahela River Valley hope -- The District Court hearing -- The Supreme Court hearing -- Conference and resolution -- "Zone of twilight" -- A president's nadir -- The Truman Court.
Summary:
"[This book] argues that the years between FDR's death in 1945 and Chief Justice Earl Warren's confirmation in 1953 (the dawn of the Cold War) were, contrary to widespread belief, important years in Supreme Court history. Never before or since has a president so quickly and completely changed the ideological and temperamental composition of the Court. With remarkable swiftness and certainty, Truman constructed a Court on which he relied to lend constitutional credence to his political agenda"-- Provided by the publisher.
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