Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments and a Note on Editing v
3. Contents vii
4. Illustrations viii
5. Charles Evans Hughes ix
6. Editors’ Introduction xi
7. Prefatory Note 2
8. Chapter I. My Father and Mother 3
9. Chapter II. Childhood 12
10. Chapter III. College Life 29
11. Chapter IV. Teaching and Studying Law 49
12. Chapter V. Early Experiences at the Bar 62
13. Chapter VI. First Firms 75
14. Chapter VII. Teaching Law 92
15. Chapter VIII. Practice Again 98
16. Chapter IX. The Gas and Insurance Investigations 119
17. Chapter Χ. The Governorship 128
18. Chapter XI. The Supreme Court 159
19. Chapter XII. 1916 178
20. Chapter XIII. 1917–1921 186
21. Chapter XIV. Secretary of State 199
22. Chapter XV. Foreign Policy Problems 209
23. Chapter XVI. The Open Door and Other Issues 253
24. Chapter XVII. Practice Again 285
25. Chapter XVIII. Chief Justice 290
26. Appendix I. Ancestry 325
27. Appendix II. Speeches–Methods 335
28. Appendix III. Memorandum 339
29. Appendix IV. Hughes as Governor 344
30. Index 349