The boy from Turtle Creek
Coming to America
Family life
A time of war
On my own
Princeton
Serviving in Stanford Law School
My first job as a lawyer
Justice William O. Douglas
Learning litigation at Tuttle & Taylor
a lot of balls in the air
At least I didn't miss my flight
Governor Brown and the State Board of Education
Cooperatives and reactors
Campaigns and conventions
Arguing Miranda
Bobby
Hire the best talent, then turn them loose!
Race politics and the triumph of Tom Bradley
"Younger Foe" : My race for Attorney General
McDonnell Douglas and Prop 13
MOCA and me
Becoming a judge
Not always the liberal vote
From Bork to Kennedy
The Watkins case and the Birth of Gay Rights
Completing my J-turns
Protesting injustice : sentencing guidelines and the death penalty
Leaving the judicial monastery
Indian gaming, propositions, and private practice
Last legal adventures at Akin Gump
My twenty-first century.