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Spoiling for a Fight: The Rise of Eliot Spitzer
by Brooke A Masters  Publisher Comments Combining passion and zeal with a savvy understanding of the press, Eliot Spitzer, scourge of Wall Street, has brought down some of the biggest names in American finance and now has his sights set on higher office. This revelatory book shows Americans...
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Barman: Ping-Pong, Pathos, and Passing the Bar
by Alex Wellen Publisher Comments Alex Wellen is an excited, ambitious, and overwhelmed twenty-something law student trying to integrate into one of the most powerful and promise-filled cities in the world—New York. As he moves from graduating student to licensed lawyer—the...
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A Matter of Law: A Memoir of Struggle in the Cause of Equal Rights
by Robert Carter Publisher Comments As chief legal assistant to Thurgood Marshall and, later, as General Counsel to the NAACP, Robert L. Carter played a central role in crafting the legal strategy for the pivotal cases of the civil rights era-arguing and winning over twenty pivotal cases...
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A Lawyer's Journey: The Morris Dees Story (ABA Biography Series)
by Morris Dees Publisher Comments This book dramatically chronicles the significant events that led Morris Dees to the front lines of the civil rights struggle and his ongoing crusade against hate groups.This is the story of the courageous and often lonely journey of a skilled and...
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Oliver Wendell Holmes JR. (Lives & Legacies)
by G. Edward White Publisher Comments Known as the "Great Dissenter," Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. wrote some of the most eloquent opinions in the history of the United States Supreme Court. A brilliant legal mind who served on the high court into his nineties, Holmes was responsible for some...
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Saving Graces: Finding Solace and Strength from Friends and Strangers
by Elizabeth Edwards Publisher Comments Elizabeth Edwards incandescent memoir--a bestseller in hardcover-- is now available in paperback....
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The Man to See
by Evan Thomas Publisher Comments Legendary attorney Edward Bennet Williams was arguably the best trial lawyer ever to practice. Now, for the first time, best-selling author Evan Thomas takes us into the courtrooms of William's greatest performances as he defends "Godfather" Frank...
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The Making of a Country Lawyer: An Autobiography
by Gerry L Spence Publisher Comments The Making of a Country Lawyer is the firsthand account of a beloved American attorney, a modern-day folk hero, a man who has devoted his life's work to the downtrodden and damned. It is the story of a wayward son who, at the age of twenty, suffered an...
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Harry A. Blackmun: The Outsider Justice
by Tinsley Yarbrough Publisher Comments When appointed to the Supreme Court in 1970 by President Nixon, Harry A. Blackmun was seen as a quiet, safe choice to complement the increasingly conservative Court of his boyhood friend, Warren Burger. No one anticipated his seminal opinion championing...
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Sandra Day O'Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice
by Joan Biskupic Publisher Comments Drawing on information from once-private papers of the justices, hundreds of interviews, and insight gained from 17 years of covering the Supreme Court, the author examines the remarkable career of the first woman on the Supreme Court....
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My Life and an Era: The Autobiography of an African American Lawyer in Early Oklahoma
by Buck Colbe Franklin Publisher Comments Buck Colbert Franklin (1879-1960) led an extraordinary life; from his boyhood adventures on a ranch in what was then the Indian Territory to his practice of law in twentieth-century Tulsa, he was an observant witness to the changes in politics, law...
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Judging Thomas: The Life and Times of Clarence Thomas
by Ken Foskett Publisher Comments Clarence Thomas, the youngest and most controversial member of the Supreme Court, could become the longest-serving justice in history, influencing American law for decades to come. Who is this enigmatic man? And what does he believe in? Judging Thomas...
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Ipse Dixit: How the World Looks to a Federal Judge
by William L Dwyer Publisher Comments During William L. Dwyer's fifteen-year tenure as a U.S. District Court judge, he presided over many complex and groundbreaking cases. In one of his most controversial rulings, he engaged environmentalists and the timber industry in a heavily publicized...
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Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made
by Jim Newton Publisher Comments Award-winning journalist Newton brings readers the first truly comprehensive consideration of Earl Warren, the politician-turned-Chief Justice, who refashioned the place of the Supreme Court in American life....
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Judging Thomas: The Life and Times of Clarence Thomas
by Ken Foskett Publisher Comments Clarence Thomas, the youngest and most controversial member of the Supreme Court, could become the longest-serving justice in history, influencing American law for decades to come. Who is this enigmatic man?And what does he believe in? Judging Thomas...
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Color-blind Justice : Albion Tourg
by Mark Elliott Publisher Comments Civil War officer, Reconstruction "carpetbagger," best-selling novelist, and relentless champion of equal rights, Albion Tourgee battled his entire life for racial justice. Now, in this engaging biography, Mark Elliott offers an insightful portrait of a...
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Thurgood Marshall :American revolutionary
by Juan Williams Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of Eyes on the Prize, here is the definitive biography of the great lawyer and Supreme Court justice. Thurgood Marshall stands today as the great architect of American race relations, having expanded the foundation of...
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The American Judicial Tradition: Profiles of Leading American Judges (Oxford Paperbacks)
by G Edward White Publisher Comments Now available in a newly revised and updated edition, this highly acclaimed volume presents a series of portraits of the most famous appellate judges in American history from John Marshall to the Burger court....
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Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas
by Kevin Merida Publisher Comments There is no more powerful, detested, misunderstood African American in our public life than Clarence Thomas. Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas is a haunting portrait of an isolated and complex man, savagely reviled by much of the...
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Chutzpah
by Alan M Dershowitz Publisher Comments The acclaimed #1 New York Times bestseller, written by a brilliant legal mind, on what it means to be a Jew in America today. Dershowitz discusses the changes they've witnessed, changes they've created, and the changes that must still take place. He...
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