With a journalist's eye for detail, Robert Zelnick looks at Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's key role in the controversial University of Michigan affirmative action cases of 203, providing key background information, detailed descriptions of daily arguments, and an evaluation of the final rulings.

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• Acknowledgments (0817945229_ix.pdf ~32 KB)
• Chapter 1: The Swing Justice (0817945229_1.pdf ~68 KB)
• Chapter 2: Affirmative Action Before O'Connor (0817945229_11.pdf ~80 KB)
• Chapter 3: O'Connor and the Employment Cases (0817945229_27.pdf ~106 KB)
• Chapter 4: O'Connor in Command (0817945229_51.pdf ~77 KB)
• Chapter 5: The Percentage Plans (0817945229_67.pdf ~108 KB)
• Chapter 6: The Michigan Case (0817945229_93.pdf ~115 KB)
• Chapter 7: The Sixth Circuit (0817945229_121.pdf ~68 KB)
• Chapter 8: Argument (0817945229_133.pdf ~84 KB)
• Chapter 9: Decision (0817945229_151.pdf ~114 KB)
• Chapter 10: After Michigan (0817945229_179.pdf ~92 KB)
• Index (0817945229_199.pdf ~68 KB)