'This study's emphasis on ideas in American political development sets it apart from many similar historical works. Yet the careful research on policy and jurisprudence adds a detailed narrative of the nuts and bolts of American politics that is sometimes lacking in works of political theory. Moreno's book is an ambitious, meticulously researched, and thoughtful study strongly rooted in primary sources. It should be required reading for anyone interested in constitutionalism and jurisprudence, political thought, and American political development.' Jason R. Jividen, The Journal of American History
1. The post-war Constitution; 2. The judiciary and private rights; 3. Crisis of 1890s; 4. The new jurisprudence; 5. The due process dialectic; 6. Federal police power; 7. Rooseveltian progressivism; 8. The Lochner incident; 9. Court and Constitution in crisis; 10. Taft and the Republican crack-up; 11. Wilsonian progressivism; 12. The new freedom; 13. The new Wilson; 14. The Great War; 15. The return of the regular republicans; 16. The Taft court; 17. The last progressive; 18. The New Deal; 19. To the brink; 20. The Second New Deal; 21. The court fight; 22. The abortive Third New Deal; 23. The New Deal court.