Leaders of the Pack

The Editors: William D. Pederson is Professor of Political Science and the American Studies Chair in Liberal Arts at Louisiana State University in Shreveport.Norman W. Provizer is Professor of Political Science at Metropolitan State College of Denver, Colorado.

• Contents: Sherman G. Finesilver/Norman W. Provizer: Prelude – Robert C. Bradley: Selecting and Ranking Great Justices: Poll Results – Norman W. Provizer: John Marshall: The Supreme Court’s Louis Armstrong – Danny M. Adkison: Joseph Story and a National System of Law – William D. Pederson/Frank J. Williams: Roger B. Taney: A Jacksonian Chief Justice Who Favored «Dixie» on the Bench – Linda Przybyszewski: John Marshall Harlan the Elder: Color-Blind Justice – James Chowning Davies: Oliver Wendell Holmes: The Evolution of a Great Justice – Stephen K. Shaw: Louis D. Brandeis: The Justice as Prophet and Teacher – James B. Staab: Benjamin Nathan Cardozo: Striking a Balance Between Stability and Progress – Henry J. Abraham: Hugo L. Black: Constitutional Literalist and Absolutist – Dennis J. Coyle: Felix Frankfurter: Constitutionalist Progressive – James Chowning Davies: William O. Douglas: A Judge for the 21st Century – John R. Vile: Charles Evans Hughes: An Eighteenth Century Statesman Redivivus – Theodore M. Vestal: Harlan Fiske Stone: New Deal Prudence – Norman W. Provizer/Joseph D. Vigil: Earl Warren: Justice as Fairness – Rodney A. Grunes: William J. Brennan, Jr. and Human Dignity – Barbara A. Perry: William H. Rehnquist and the Conservative Counterrevolution – Neil T. Erwin: Justice Sandra Day O’Connor: Tall in the Saddle – David Schultz: Why No More Giants on the Supreme Court: The Personalities and the Times.