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Cover -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Editors' Preface -- Preface -- 1. Campaign Finance Reform before 1971 -- 2. Reform and Response: The Federal Election Campaign Act and Buckley -- 3. Soft Money, PACs, and the Failure of Campaign Finance Reform after 1976 -- 4. The Road to McCain-Feingold -- 5. The Supreme Court and Elections: From Buckley to McConnell -- 6. Interlude: Confusion in the District Court -- 7. McConnell v. Federal Election Commission -- 8. From McConnell to Citizens United -- 9. Meet Mr. McCutcheon -- Afterword -- Appendix A. Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 -- Appendix B. 1974 Amendments to FECA -- Appendix C. 1976 Amendments to FECA -- Appendix D. 1979 Amendments to FECA -- Appendix E. Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 -- Chronology -- List of Cases -- Bibliographic Essay -- Index.

Affirmative action before Kennedy -- Kennedy and Johnson -- Affirmative action spreads-and mutates -- Nixon and the Philadelphia plan -- Prejudice persists, affirmative action grows -- Marco Defunis, Allan Bakke, and Brian Weber -- Changing academia -- Backlash and defense -- Blacks and Jews divide -- Women and affirmative action -- The Reagan presidency -- The Court changes its mind -- Mend it, don't end it-or not -- Prop 209 -- Affirmative action and elections -- Seeking diversity in higher education -- Women and affirmative action II -- Other groups, here and abroad -- Bush, Obama, and Fisher -- Yes...and no...and Trump.

Louisville roots -- Harvard, St. Louis, and back -- Warren & Brandeis -- First steps -- Alice -- Traction and utilities -- A perfect reform -- Taking on Morgan -- An attorney for the people -- Democracy in the workplace -- The Pinchot-Ballinger affair -- Railroad interludes -- The curse of bigness -- National politics -- A snapshot of Mr. Brandeis -- The new freedom -- Men! money! discipline! -- Nomination -- Settling in -- Extrajudicial activities: I -- Zionism, 1917-1921 -- War and speech--and Holmes -- Brandeis and Taft -- The Taft court and legal classicism -- A new agenda : the court and civil liberties -- Extrajudicial activities : II -- Depression -- The new deal -- Extrajudicial activities : III -- The passing of Isaiah

Helps students understand the human side of the Supreme Court's decisions from the early republic to the present. Each biographical profile includes a discussion about the Court decision and how the specific legal issues evolved into great constitutional questions and drama