Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The Way We Were, the Way We Were Going to Be -- Part I: The Old Order -- 1. Structure, Power, and Form -- American Public Law, 1900-1932 -- 2. The Legal Profession in the Early Twentieth Century -- 3. The Law of Business and Commerce -- 4. Crime and Punishment in the New Century -- 5. Race Relations and Civil Liberties -- Part II: The New Deal and Its Successors -- 6. The Roosevelt Revolution -- 7. War and Postwar -- Prosperity and the Flowering of the Welfare State -- 8. Crime and Criminal Justice in the Postwar World -- 9. Courts, Trials, and Procedures in the Twentieth Century -- 10. Race Relations and Civil Rights -- 11. The Liability Explosion -- Personal-Injury Law in the Twentieth Century -- 12. Business Law in an Age of Change -- 13. The Law of Property -- 14. Family Law and Family Life -- 15. Internal Legal Culture: The Legal Profession -- 16. American Legal Culture in the Twentieth Century -- Part III: The Way We Live Now: The Reagan and Post-Reagan Years -- 17. Backward and Forward -- Counterrevolution and Its Aftershocks -- 18. Getting Around and Spreading the Word -- 19. Law -- An American Export -- 20. Taking Stock -- Notes -- A Bibliographical Note -- Index.