Cover
Half-title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Preface
Contents
1. Traditions and Alternatives
2. The Healing Wound: The Supreme Court and National Politics, 1857-1866
3. Reconstruction Politics and the Supreme Court
4. Congress and the Supreme Court: The Game of Numbers and Circuits
5. Congress and the Supreme Court: The "Abortive Revolution"
6. The Supreme Court and Reconstruction: Judicial Impotence?
7. The Expansion of Power: Judicial Activism
8. The Expansion of Power: New Jurisdiction
9. The Supreme Court in the Reconstruction Era
Bibliographical Essay
Index