William Leuchtenburg's book on "The Supreme Court Reborn" contains nine different essays that talks about the constitutional crisis of the 1930s. Each of the articles focused on the various aspects of the said crisis. Leuchtenburg used these nine articles to stress out his point that whatever decision that the Supreme Court has made during those early 1930s, the decisions came, not from the members of the court, but from the smaller groups or members of Justice Department officials such as the then President Roosevelt, Homer Cummings (the president's attorney general) and Edward Corwin (the departmental consultant).
             The first four chapters talk about various Supreme Court decisions concerning seemingly alike cases, namely (http://www.unt.edu/lpbr/subpages/reviews/leuchten.htm, 1995):
             1. The 1927 Buck vs. Bell case – the case that is closely relevant constitutional crisis of 1937
             2. The 1935 Retirement Board vs. Alton R. Company – the case that showcased the anti-new deal decision which has invalidated the Railway Retirement Act of 1934
             3. The case of Humphrey's Executor vs. United States in 1935 – that resulted to repudiation of Roosevelt's ouster of William E. Humphrey from the Federal Trade Commission
             4. The 1937 West Coast Hotel vs. Parrish case – the case that was viewed as the Court's gesture of capitulating on to the New Deal
             These four cases are specifically chosen by Leuchtenburg because the said cases reflect how Supreme Court was during the early 1930s. Moreover, these cases also show why and how the constitutional crisis started. The other two chapters of the book specifically talk about the start of the Court-packing proposal and the manipulation of political stature that accompanied its presentation to Congress and its eventual defeat. Another chapter tackles the battle over Hugo black's confirmation. It should be remembered that Black was nominated by Roosevelt to replace Willis Van Devanter who ...