Introduction: looking backward
1. A very young adult
2. Trials at Harvard
3. A new clerk, a new judge
4. A regulatory interlude
5. The towering Justice Frankfurter
6. The rift on the Roosevelt court
7. The ear and pen of clerks for life
8. Redeployment
9. Assignment in Germany
10. At the office of the solicitor-general
11. The gist of the antitrust thrust
12. The solicitor-general's office and civil rights
13. Unconventional conduct
14. The 1960 election
15. "Troublemaker" at the Federal Trade Commission
16. Reappointment
17. The cigarette rule
18. Very public acrimony
19. Teaching and practice
Afterword: the project and the controversy
Table of cases.