Marshall's early years -- Marshall becomes a revolutionary and a sense of time and distance -- Marshall moves up the ladder in Virginia and the world shakes as America comes to be -- Marshall on the national and international stage and a small cadre make a large nation -- Marshall was almost president, so who else came close? -- The necessity of the American myth -- From XYZ to Marbury -- The worst Supreme Court Decisions, the worst justices, and the best dissent -- Marshall's landmark decisions and when did the founding of America end? -- Transitional courts and how clerks have changed the court -- Modest proposals -- Marshall and Burr, his retreats to Richmond, and his legacy -- Why we study history, and how the study of it has deeply changed.