CONTENTS -- CHAPTER I: An Overview -- Law and Custom -- Senatorial Courtesy -- The President: Expectations and Powers -- The Deputy Attorney General -- The White House Staff -- The American Bar Association -- The Senate Judiciary Committee -- The FBI Reports -- Pressures at Work -- Pressure from Candidates -- Pressure of State Tradition -- The Pressure of "Good Politics" -- Pressure from Sitting Judges -- The Interplay of Forces in the Appointment Process -- District Courts -- Circuit Courts -- The Other Federal Courts -- CHAPTER II: The Kennedy Administration -- The President's Role in Judicial Selection -- The White House Staff -- The Team at Justice -- The Decision-Making Process -- Identifying Candidates: The Dolan Variation -- The White-Katzenbach Standards for Selection -- Explicit Criteria -- Implicit Criteria -- The Use of Negotiation Strategies -- CHAPTER III: The Eisenhower Administration -- The Role of the President -- As William P. Rogers Saw It -- As Lawrence E. Walsh Saw It -- The Objective Record -- Previous Judicial Experience of Judges -- Party Affiliation -- Age of Appointees -- Socioeconomic Background -- Appointments from the Department of Justice -- Recess Appointments -- Delay -- Appointments in the South -- American Bar Association Ratings of Judges -- CHAPTER IV: The American Bar Association Committee -- The Setting -- Enter Ross Malone -- Enter Bernard Segal -- Exit Segal -- Enter Friesen -- Who Are the Committeemen? -- How the Committee Does Its Work -- The Committee's Explicit Desiderata -- Some Disquieting Allegations -- Assaying the Committee's Role -- CHAPTER V: The Johnson Administration -- The Kennedy Legacies -- The 1964 Appointments -- The 1965 Appointments -- The Appointments of 1966-68 -- Comparisons With the Eisenhower and Kennedy Administrations -- The LBJ Brand on Judicial Selection.

CHAPTER VI: Conclusions -- A Modest Proposal -- A Less Modest Proposal -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.