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Clarence Darrow: American Iconoclast by Andrew E. Kersten Publisher Comments Clarence Darrow is best remembered as the defense attorney in some of the most famous (and infamous) cases in American legal history. With his brilliant closing argument that saved the thrill killers Leopold and Loeb from the gallows and his impassioned... (read more) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper 
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Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned by John A. Farrell Publisher Comments Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography The definitive biography of Clarence Darrow, the brilliant, idiosyncratic lawyer who defended John Scopes in the “Monkey Trial” and gave voice to the populist masses at the turn of the... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo by Oscar Zeta Acosta Publisher Comments Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano layer and notorious as the real-life model for Hunter S. Thompson's "Dr. Gonzo," a fat, pugnacious attorney with a gargantuan... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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V. Goliath: The Trials of David Boies by Karen Donovan Publisher Comments David Boies, the star trial lawyer in a country obsessed with legal drama, proves endlessly fascinating in this compulsively readable account of his extraordinary career. A man of almost superhuman accomplishment, Boies argued a string of headline-making... (read more) Your price: $15.25 New - Trade Paper
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Convictions: A Prosecutor's Battles Against Mafia Killers, Drug Kingpins, and Enron Thieves by John Kroger Publisher Comments As an Assistant United States Attorney, John Kroger pursued high-profile cases against mafia killers, drug kingpins, and Enron executives. In Convictions, Kroger reveals how to flip a perp, how to conduct a cross, how to work an informant, how to placate... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Laughing at the Gods: Great Judges and How They Made the Common Law by Allan C Hutchinson Publisher Comments Any effort to understand how law works has to take seriously its main players judges. Like any performance, judging should be evaluated by reference to those who are its best exponents. Not surprisingly, the debate about what makes a 'great judge' is as... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $21.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun's Supreme Court Journey by Linda Greenhouse Publisher Comments A fascinating book. In clear and forceful prose, Becoming Justice Blackmun tells a judicial Horatio Alger story and a tale of a remarkable transformation . . . A page-turner.--The New York Times Book Review In this acclaimed biography, Linda Greenhouse... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Justice of Shattered Dreams: Samuel Freeman Miller and the Supreme Court During the Civil War Era (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War) by Michael A. Ross Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-304) and index.... (read more) Your price: $23.95 New - Trade Paper
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Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices by Noah Feldman Publisher Comments A tiny, ebullient Jew who started as America's leading liberal and ended as its most famous judicial conservative. A Klansman who became an absolutist advocate of free speech and civil rights. A backcountry lawyer who started off trying cases about cows... (read more) Your price: $16.99 New - Trade Paper
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Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices by Noah Feldman Publisher Comments A tiny, ebullient Jew who started as America's leading liberal and ended as its most famous judicial conservative. A Klansman who became an absolutist advocate of free speech and civil rights. A backcountry lawyer who started off trying cases about cows... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Five Chiefs: A Supreme Court Memoir by John Paul Stevens Publisher Comments When he resigned last June, Justice Stevens was the third longest serving Justice in American history (1975-2010)--only Justice William O. Douglas, whom Stevens succeeded, and Stephen Field have served on the Court for a longer time. In Five Chiefs... (read more) Your price: $24.99 New - Hardcover
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Circle of Greed (10 Edition) by Patrick Dillon Publisher Comments 1 DRAGON SLAYER William S. Lerach first heralded himself to the elite circles in America's legal community in 1977, from the sterile downtown county courthouse on Front Street, a few blocks from the old... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Of Rats and Men: Oscar Goodman's Life from Mob Mouthpiece to Mayor of Las Vegas by John L. Smith Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-389) and index.... (read more) Your price: $25.95 New - Hardcover
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Power Concedes Nothing: One Woman's Quest for Social Justice in America, from the Courtroom to the Kill Zones by Connie Rice Publisher Comments From one of Americas most influential civil rights attorneys, Power Concedes Nothing is a hard-hitting memoir chronicling a fiercely dedicated womans quest to win the first of all human rights: freedom from violence. CONNIE RICE has taken on school and... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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My Grandfather's Son by Clarence Thomas Publisher Comments Provocative, inspiring, and unflinchingly honest, My Grandfather's Son is the story of one of America's most remarkable and controversial leaders, Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas, told in his own words. Thomas was born in rural Georgia on June 23... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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Love and Riot: Oscar Zeta Acosta and the Great Chicano Revolt by Burton Moore Synopsis Brown Buffalo, as he was known in the barrios of Los Angeles among street people, at the height of the riots in in the late 1960's and 70's, was the epitome of the Movimiento. He was smart, rebellious, unpredictable, occasionally high on drugs, but... (read more) Your price: $44.50 New - Hardcover
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With Grit and by Grace: Breaking Trails in Politics and Law, a Memoir by Betty Roberts and Gail Wells Publisher Comments In the 1950s, Betty Roberts did what most of her contemporaries considered audacious and inappropriate when she returned to college as a 32-year-old wife and mother. This was only the start of Roberts' lifetime commitment to overcoming obstacles to women'... (read more) Your price: $23.95 New - Trade Paper
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Brian Dicksona Judge S Journey (Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History) by Robert J. Sharpe Publisher Comments When Brian Dickson was appointed in 1973, the Supreme Court of Canada was preoccupied with run-of-the-mill disputes. By the time he retired as Chief Justice of Canada in 1990, the Court had become a major national institution, very much in the public eye.... (read more) Your price: $74.50 New - Hardcover
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Scoundrels To the Hoosegow (07 Edition) by Swingle Publisher Comments I closed my direct examination of narcotics officer Bill Bohnert by asking, "Detective Bohnert, do you see in the courtroom today the man we just saw on the tape, selling the crack cocaine to Darren Bullard?" ... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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To Punish and Protect: Against a System That Coddles Criminals by Jeanine Pirro Publisher Comments Deemed "the avenging angel of American justice" (Chris Matthews, Hardball), Jeanine Pirro, the famed Westchester County district attorney, presents hard truths about a justice system that she believes coddles criminals at the expense of innocent victims.... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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