The early years

Learned Hand and Frances Fincke

From Wall Street lawyer to Federal District Judge

The marriage and its tensions

The peak of political enthusiasm : Herbert Croly, Theodore Roosevelt, and the progressive years

Promotion to the Second Circuit

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals in the 1920s and 1930s : Hand as first among equals

Achieving national renown during the nation's complacent years, 1919-1928

The Hoover years and Hand's missed chance for promotion to the Supreme Court

The New Deal

The road to war and the break with Lippmann

The chief judgeship and World War II

The last chance for a Supreme Court appointment : the 1942 vacancy

The postwar years, the Cold War, and Mccarthyism

Active retirement from "regular active service".