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N I N E  M E N

A G A I N S T  A M E R I C A

The Supreme Court
and Its Attack on American Liberties

R O S A L I E   M.   G O R D O N

 

Originally published by

THE DEVIN-ADAIR COMPANY  •  NEW YORK
1958



TO JOHN T. FLYNN

Who is in no way responsible for this
book, but without whose shining example,
over many long years, of the true tradi-
tions of American journalism, it could
not have been written.


 Miss Gordon
CONTENTS
 
  PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION
  FOREWORD
1. WHAT THE ATTACK MEANS TO AMERICAN LIBERTIES
2. THE SEEDS OF THE ATTACK ARE SOWN
3. THE COURT AND OUR FREEDOM
4. “THE NINE OLD MEN”
5. COURT PACKING BEGINS—BLACK AND REED
6. COURT PACKING CONTINUES—FRANKFURTER
7. AND GOES ON—DOUGLAS
8. AND ON—MURPHY AND RUTLEDGE
9. UP AND DOWN IS ACROSS—THE ELEVATOR DECISION
10. “CIVIL LIBERTIES”—FOR WHOM?
11. TRUMAN NAMES A CHIEF JUSTICE—FRED M. VINSON
12. TWO MAJOR BASTIONS
13. EISENHOWER’S CHIEF JUSTICE— EARL WARREN
14. THE NAACP VERSUS THE 48 STATES
15. THE SUPREME COURT MAKES A LAW
16. THE COURT’S “AUTHORITIES”
17. MORE PACKEES—JACKSON, BURTON, CLARK, AND MINTON
18. IKE GOES PACKING—HARLAN, BRENNAN, AND WHITTAKER
19. BEHIND THE BLACK ROBES
20. THE LAST BASTION IS STORMED
21. RED MONDAY
22. YOUR JOB, YOUR BUSINESS, YOUR ESTATE—AND MURDER
23. THE COMMUNISTS’ JUBILATION—AND A WARNING
24. TO TURN THE TIDE
  SUPREME COURT CASES CITED
  INDEX


Main body text is from the first edition.
Preface to the fourth edition was added subsequently.
HTML presentation by Joel T. LeFevre.