Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction: The Way We Were, the Way We Were Going to Be 1
5. Part I. The Old Order
6. 1. Structure, Power, and Form: American Public Law, 1900–1932 15
7. 2. The Legal Profession in the Early Twentieth Century 29
8. 3. The Law of Business and Commerce 44
9. 4. Crime and Punishment in the New Century 80
10. 5. Race Relations and Civil Liberties 111
11. Part II. The New Deal and Its Successors
12. 6. The Roosevelt Revolution 151
13. 7. War and Postwar: Prosperity and the Flowering of the Welfare State 184
14. 8. Crime and Criminal Justice in the Postwar World 205
15. 9. Courts, Trials, and Procedures in the Twentieth Century 251
16. 10. Race Relations and Civil Rights 280
17. 11. The Liability Explosion: Personal-Injury Law in the Twentieth Century 349
18. 12. Business Law in an Age of Change 377
19. 13. The Law of Property 399
20. 14. Family Law and Family Life 430
21. 15. Internal Legal Culture: The Legal Profession 457
22. 16. American Legal Culture in the Twentieth Century 505
23. Part III. The Way We Live Now: The Reagan and Post-Reagan Years
24. 17. Backward and Forward: Counterrevolution and Its Aftershocks 523
25. 18. Getting Around and Spreading the Word 548
26. 19. Law: An American Export 572
27. 20. Taking Stock 588
28. Notes 609
29. A Bibliographical Note 681
30. Index 691