Preface and introduction : a cocktail [book] of decisions
Prologue : early times and the early Supreme Court
The Marshall era of punch and the public house
The long Taney era of the mint julep
The Chase era : taxing times
The Waite era of the grand political saloon
The Fuller era : a gilded age of cocktails
The White era and the prohibition amendment
The Taft era of law, order, and bootlegging
The gin cocktail party of the Hughes era
The Stone era : rumbustion
The old-fashioned Vinson era
The Warren era : swanky swilling
The Burger era : twilight of the cocktail lounge
The Rehnquist era of neotemperance
The retro Roberts era : running a tab
Epilogue : a return to normalcy cocktail.