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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Going Down to Mississippi -- Chapter 2 The Jewish Community in Starkville, Mississippi, and We "Fast-Talkin' New York Jews" -- Chapter 3 "Hey, Rabbi": Refereeing Football Games in the Magnolia State -- Chapter 4 Confronting Racism While Serving the ACLU in Mississippi -- Chapter 5 Defending the 1965 Voting Rights Act -- Chapter 6 A Solitary Jew on Campus and in the Field -- Chapter 7 Leaving the Magnolia State -- Chapter 8 Conclusion: The Yin/Yang of Life in Mississippi, and Two Men from Union Collide -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Background and History -- Introduction -- Changes in How We Die -- The Changing Doctor-Patient Relationship -- The First Efforts to Pass Euthanasia Bills in America -- The Medicalization of Death -- The Basic Arguments Supporting and Opposing PAD -- The Arguments of Supporters of PAD -- The Major Groups Supporting PAD -- Doctors as "Indiscriminate Zealots" -- The Conventional Physician/Supporter of PAD -- Professional Medical Groups Supportive of PAD -- Nonmedical Groups Supporting PAD -- The Two Major PAD Pressure Groups -- The Alternatives Available to Terminally Ill Patients if PAD Is Not Legal -- Becoming a "Death Tourist," -- The Arguments in Opposition to PAD -- Religious Groups Opposed to PAD -- Medical Groups Opposed to PAD -- Vulnerable Groups' Opposition to PAD -- Not Dead Yet: The Disabled Community's Vocal Advocate -- Conclusion -- References -- 2 Problems, Controversies, and Solutions -- Introduction -- The Right to Die Battle in the Courts -- The PVS Cases: The Initial Judicial Foray into the Contemporary Right to Die Controversy -- The Central Role of the U.S. Supreme Court in the Right to Die Controversy -- Efforts to Pass Right to Die Legislation: 1990-2016 -- The Oregon Story, 1994-2006 -- The Unsuccessful State Efforts after 1997 -- Washington State's Battles to Pass a PAD Initiative, 1991-2008 -- The Vermont Effort to Pass a PAD Law, 2003-2015 -- California's Odyssey to the Passage of the End of Life Option Act, 1992-2015 -- The Role of State Courts in the Right to Die Controversy -- Baxter v. Montana (2009) -- Morris v. New Mexico (2014-2016) -- Some Unresolved Problems Linked with Aid in Dying -- Fears -- The Patient-Doctor Relationship -- Trust and Mistrust in the Health Care System -- The Semantic Problem

Of the more than 250 wars fought since 1950, most have involved mass murder and genocide against groups targeted because of ethnic, racial, religious, or gender characteristics. Sadly, there is still no enforcement mechanism or organization that can effectively prevent genocide on an international level

Presidential power versus the Constitution's limits on power -- Capturing the "enemy" -- Treatment of the "enemy" -- Bush versus the U.S. Supreme Court, round one, 2003-2004 -- Bush versus the U.S. Supreme court, round two, 2004-2006 -- Bush trumps the U.S. Supreme Court: the 2006 Military Commissions Act

In this volume, Howard Ball explores Hugo Black's development from his childhood days growing up in Alabama to his 34 years on the United States Supreme Court. Ball illustrates who and what shaped this controversial judge to become known as one of the "ten greatest" US Supreme Court justices of American history.