Counsel for the situation : shaping the law to realize America's promise /
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Washington, D.C. :
Brookings Institution Press,
c2010
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- Mr. Coleman goes to Washington
- Roots
- Making jewels out of rough diamonds
- Home sweet home
- School days
- Sibling rivalries
- College years
- Harvard law school
- War
- After the war
- Clerking for the good judge
- Justice Frankfurter
- Life at the Supreme Court and in the nation's capitol
- From the ivory tower to the working world
- American history in black and white
- Chipping away at Plessy
- The Brown team
- The city of brotherly love
- Expert in relevance
- The tipping point
- Reargument, December 7, 1953
- With all deliberate speed
- Enforcing the court's order
- A lawyer's public service obligation
- Managing the Dilworth litigation department
- The Girard College case
- The legacy of Houston-Hastie-Marshall
- The Nixon years
- Change in course
- Cabinet-style government
- Getting to know the Department of Transportation
- Making transportation policy
- The decisionmaking process
- A time of transition
- The sun also rises in the East
- Building the Washington practice
- The Bob Jones case
- Supreme Court practice
- The Robert Bork hearings
- Is race still relevant?
- Opportunities for public service
- Reflecting on Republicans and race
- Counsel for the situation
- Epilogue