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CONTENTS Introduction: Looking Backward I I. A Very Young Adult 7 2. Trials at Harvard 17 3. A New Clerk, a New Judge 46 4. A Regulatory Interlude 60 5. The Towering Justice Frankfurter 68 6. The Rift on the Roosevelt Court 95 7. The Ear and Pen of Clerks for Life 127 8. Redeployment 139 9. Assignment in Germany 147 10. At the Office of the Solicitor General 157 I I. The Gist of the Antitrust Thrust 184 12. The Solicitor General's Office and Civil Rights 190 13. Unconventional Conduct 245 14. The 1960 Election 255 15."Troublemaker" at the Federal Trade Commission 282 16. Reappointment 327 17. The Cigarette Rule 341 18. Very Public Acrimony 353 19. Teaching and Practice 384 Afterword: The Project and the Controversy 391 Table of Cases 411 Index 413 NOTE TO THE READER This book is written in the form of an autobiographical memoir: a subjective , hopefully informative and entertaining account that presents an unusual view of people, law, and legal institutions. It is in Philip Elman's first-person voice because it developed out of oral history interviews I conducted with Mr. Elman, and from our correspondence and conversations in later years. The original interviews were conducted at the Columbia University Oral History Research Office during 1983 and 1984, so that references to the current occupations of people, or to the events of "today," refer to the period between July 1983 and June 1984. Columbia University holds the copyright in the interviews and has permitted me to use those portions of the interviews that are presented here. A discussion of the interviews and the evolution of the form of this manuscript is contained in the concluding chapter. Each chapter contains a narration by Phil, followed by a commentary that combines interpretation with a glossary and references. The entries appear in roughly the same order in which Phil discusses the subjects to which the commentary refers. The entries are designed to be hrowsed or read after each chapter's narrative. Readers can consult the index at the back of the book at any time to locate people, subjects, or cases of interest. ...

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