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Heath, 1969).

The category "Political" was employed when the work concerned the relationship between the Supreme Court and another branch of government. As the numbers in the first table indicate, this classification was used sparingly. An example is Samuel Krislov's Supreme Court in the Political Process (New York: Macmillan, 1965).

"Specific Justices" was one of the easier sub-topics to use, as the title alone usually made its appropriateness self-evident. Included here were books on one or more Justices (biographical and autobiographical works and critical analyses of their work on the Court) as well as books on specific nominees (e.g., two books on George H. Carswell4). Also included were collections of letters and papers of specific Justices. An example of a title fitting under this label is Hugo Black Jr.'s My Father, A Remembrance (New York: Random House, 1975).

"Minorities" was a difficult category to use. It was employed for titles like Arnold M. Paul's Black Americans and the Supreme Court Since Emancipation: Betrayal or Protection? (New York: Holt, 1972), which deals with the subject of segregation in a more general way than a book like Richard Kluger's Simple Justice: the History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality (New York: Knopf, 1976) which was classified under "Specific Cases." Once again the arbitrariness of the whole process leaps out at the reader and the only justification which can be offered is that of necessity.

"Law Enforcement" looked like a promising term in the beginning but only two titles fell into that slot: Ronald Sokol's Lawabiding Policeman: a Guide to Recent Supreme Court Decisions (Charlottesville, Virginia: Michie, 1966) and Stanley Cohen's Law Enforcement Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions (Springfield, Illinois: C. C. Thomas, 1971). As with all the titles, others might have fit this category but seemed better suited to other categories and so there they rest.

"Warren and His Court" is a category like "Specific Justices" which was very easy to fill. While there was a steady trickle of books on Warren and "his" Court from 1964-69, one finds a veritable flood in 1970, 1971, and 1972. This large volume of books following Chief Justice Warren's death is understandable, as is the relative dearth of titles in recent years as current attention shifts. This category took precedence in classifying the books

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