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Profiles of Leading American Judges. Portreys the morality of the institution of the judiciary. Looks at the judiciary based on profiles of prominent judges including: Tradition: John Marshal; Judicial Function and Property Rights: Kent, Story, and Shaw; Limits of Judicial Power: Roger Taney; The Reconstructed Constitution: Miller, Bradley, and Field; Political Ideologies, Professional Norms, and the State of the Judiciary in the Late Nineteenth Centrury: Cooley and Doe; The Precursor: John marshall Harlan I; Origins of Judicial Liberalism: Homes, Brandeis; Source of Judicial NOteriaty: The four horsemen; Ironies of the Chief Justiceship: Hughs and Stone; Personal versus impersonal judging: the Dilemmas of Robert Jackson; The Dialetic of Freedom and Restraint: Cardozo, Learned Hand, and Frank; Rationality and Intuition in the process of judging: Roger Traynor; The Mosaic of the Warren Court: Frankfurter, Black, Warren, and Harlan;