Justices, Presidents, and Senators: A History of the U.S. Supreme Court Appointments from Washington to Bush by Henry Julian Abraham

Preface     ix
Preface to the First Edition     xi
Introductory Reflections: Of Criteria, Evaluations, and Judgments     1
The Nixon Era: A Turbulent Case Study     9
How They Get There: Appointing Supreme Court Justices     19
Why They Get There: Qualifications and Rationalizations     39
The First Forty Years: From George Washington to John Quincy Adams, 1789-1829     57
The Next Forty Years: From Andrew Jackson to Andrew Johnson, 1829-1869     77
The Balance of the Nineteenth Century: From Ulysses S. Grant to William McKinley, 1869-1901     101
Into the Twentieth Century: From Theodore Roosevelt to Herbert Hoover, 1901-1933     123
The Court Alters Course: FDR and Truman, 1933-1953     163
The Warren Court: From Ike to LBJ, 1953-1969     197
The Burger Court: From Nixon to Reagan, 1969-1986     233
The Rehnquist Court: Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, and Bush II, 1986-2005     275
The Roberts Court: Bush II (in part) -     315
Epilogue     325
Notes     329
Rating Supreme Court Justices     373
Rating Presidents     377
Statistical Data on Supreme Court Justices     383
Bibliography     389
General Works     389
Works about or by Individual Justices     390
Photo Acknowledgments     421
Index of Cases     425
Index of Names     429
About the Author     439