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"A masterpiece of scholarly analysis. The pathbreaking achievement of 1974 has been thoroughly updated to incorporate the scholarship and events of the last decade. It remains the definitive work in the field of Supreme Court appointments."--Stanley C. Brubaker, Colgate Unversity. "[Abraham's] are the meticulous judgments of a scholar and the provocative narrative fo a first-rate writer. A superlative discussion."--Stephen R. Schlesinger, U.S. Department of Justice. This mini-history of the court, now expanded by more than a third, discusses the selection, nomination, and appointment of each of the 102 justices who have sat on the U.S. Supreme Court since 1789.

In this new edition the author examines the selection, nomination, and appointment of the men -- and the one woman -- who have served as members of the court since 1789. He provides a fascinating account of the presidential motivations behind each nomination, examining how each appointee's performance on the bench fulfilled, or disappointed, presidential expectations.

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• Preface(p. vii)
• Preface to the First Edition(p. ix)
• 1 Introductory Reflections(p. 3)
• 2 The Nixon Era(p. 13)
• 3 How They Get There: Appointing Supreme Court Justices(p. 24)
• 4 Why They Get There(p. 49)
• 5 The First Forty Years: from George Washington to John Quincy Adams, 1789-1829(p. 71)
• 6 The Next Forty Years: from Andrew Jackson to Andrew Johnson, 1829-1869(p. 95)
• 7 The Balance of the Nineteenth Century: from Ulysses S. Grant to William Mckinley, 1869-1901(p. 126)
• 8 Into the Twentieth Century: from Theodore Roosevelt to Herbert Hoover, 1901-1933(p. 156)
• 9 The Court Alters Course: FDR and Truman, 1933-1953(p. 208)
• 10 The Warren Court: from Ike to Lbj, 1953-1969(p. 251)
• 11 The Burger Court: from Nixon to Reagan, 1969-1986(p. 296)
• 12 The Rehnquist Court: Reagan and Bush 1986(p. 349)
• 13 Epilogue(p. 370)
• Appendix A Rating Supreme Court Justices(p. 412)
• Appendix B Rating Presidents(p. 415)
• Appendix C Table of Succession of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States Showing Years of Active on the Court(p. 418)
• Bibliography: selected Biographies, Autobiographies, and Related Works Of, and By, Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States(p. 427)
• Index(p. 453)