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How Can You Defend Those People?
by Mickey Sherman  Publisher Comments Praise for Mickey Sherman’s How Can Your Defend Those People? “I’m not popular with defense attorneys, especially in matters of murder. I’m one of those people who actually says to them, ‘How can you defend such a...
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Convictions: A Prosecutor's Battles against Mafia Killers, Drug Kingpins, and Enron Thieves
by John Kroger Publisher Comments Convictions is a spellbinding story from the front lines of the fight against crime. Most Americans know little about the work of assistant United States attorneys, the federal prosecutors who possess sweeping authority to investigate and prosecute the...
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The Footpaths of Justice William O. Douglas: A Legacy of Place
by Tom R Hulst Publisher Comments U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas served on the Court for 36 years. He wrote more opinions and more dissents than any other Justice. Douglas was described as an invigorating presence on the Court and possessed unusual stamina, an unyielding...
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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...
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Supreme Discomfort: the Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas (07 Edition)
by Merida Publisher Comments SUPREME DISCOMFORT originated from a much-commented-upon profile of Clarence Thomas that appeared in an August 2002 issue of The Washington Post Magazine. In it, Kevin Merida and Michael Fletcher, both Post staffers, both black, crafted a haunting...
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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,...
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Great Chief Justice (96 Edition)
by Charles F. Hobson Synopsis "A fresh and exacting perspective on the ever-fascinating interplay between politics and the law. No student of our legal history, lay or professional, should miss this book". -- Edwin M. Yoder, Jr., Washington Post Writers Group. "A learned, lucid, and...
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Lazy B: Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest
by Sandra Day O'Connor and H. Alan Day Publisher Comments Now, for the first time in paperback, here is the remarkable story of Sandra Day O’Connor’s family and early life, her journey to adulthood in the American Southwest that helped make her the woman she is today—the first female justice...
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Thurman Arnold: A Biography
by Spencer Weber Waller Publisher Comments Thurman Arnold (1891-1969) was a major iconoclast of American law and a great liberal of the 20th century. In this first biography of Arnold, Spencer Weber Waller traces Arnold's life from his birth in Laramie, Wyoming, and explores how his western...
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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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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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First Amendment Felon: The Story of Frank Wilkinson, His 132,000-Page FBI File, and His Epic Fight for Civil Rights and Liberties
by Robert Sherrill 
Publisher Comments In the bicentennial issue of Life magazine that was published in 1991 — an issue given over to the two-hundred-year history of the Bill of Rights — Frank Wilkinson was featured as one of history's greatest defenders of the portion of the First...
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The Majesty of the Law
by Sandra Day Oconnor Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-318) and index....
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Barman
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 second most...
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Four Trials (04 Edition)
by John Edwards Publisher Comments Raised in a small town by parents employed in the local mills, John Edwards worked in those mills himself -- and then went on to become one of America's most successful and respected attorneys. He built a national reputation representing people whose...
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Saving Graces: Finding Solace and Strength from Friends and Strangers
by Elizabeth Edwards Publisher Comments She charmed America with her smart, likable, down-to-earth personality as she campaigned for her husband, then vice-presidential candidate John Edwards. She inspired millions as she valiantly fought advanced breast cancer after being diagnosed only days...
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Ccb: The Life and Century of Charles C. Burlingham, New York's First Citizen, 1858-1959
by George Martin Publisher Comments The exemplary life of an extraordinary politician and reformer. Though he held no elected or appointed office, the New York City lawyer Charles C. Burlingham had great influence with those who did, and used it in unusual ways. George Martin's surprising...
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Notorious Woman: The Celebrated Case of Myra Clark Gaines (Southern Biography)
by Elizabeth Alexander Synopsis The legal crusade of Myra Clark Gaines (1804?-1885) has all the trappings of classic melodrama--a lost heir, a missing will, an illicit relationship, a questionable marriage, a bigamous husband, and a murder. For a half-century the daughter of New...
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Courting Justice: From the NY Yankees V. Major League Baseball to Bush V. Gore 1997-2000
by David Boies Synopsis In gripping chapters that read like fiction, "the lawyer everyone wants" ("New York Times Magazine") now examines the varied clients, behind-the-scenes dramas, and 11th-hour strategies that catapulted him to the forefront of American legal icons. 16...
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Courting Justice: From the NY Yankees V. Major League Baseball to Bush V. Gore 1997-2000
by David Boies Synopsis In gripping chapters that read like fiction, "the lawyer everyone wants" ("New York Times Magazine") now examines the varied clients, behind-the-scenes dramas, and 11th-hour strategies that catapulted him to the forefront of American legal icons. 16...
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