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Though the Heavens May Fall: The Landmark Trial That Led to the End of Human Slavery
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The case of James Somerset, an escaped slave, in June of 1772 in London's Westminster Hall was a decisive turning point in human history. Steven Wise has uncovered fascinating new revelations in this case, which statesmen of the time threatened woul
The Conscience of the Constitution: The Declaration of Independence and the Right to Liberty
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Timothy Sandefur's insightful book provides a dramatic new challenge to the status quo of constitutional law and argues a vital truth: our Constitution was written not to empower democracy, but to secure liberty. Yet the overemphasis on democracy by
Pirate Trials: Dastardly Deeds & Last Words
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Some of the most bloodthirsty pirates in the world were brought to justice and held over for trial in Scotland, England, and the United States. These trials detail their dastardly deeds with startling testimony of those who were there and lived to be
John Wayne Gacy: Defending a Monster
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For the first time Gacy's lawyer and confidant tells his chilling tale of how he defended an American serial killer.
"Sam, could you do me a favor?"
Thus begins a story that has now become part of America's true-crime hall of fame. It is a gory
Judgment Before Nuremberg: The Holocaust in the Ukraine and the First Nazi War Crimes Trial
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Here is the story of the forgotten Kharkov trials, which sought justice for the thousands killed in the Ukraine two years prior to the infamous Nuremberg trial. When people think of the Holocaust, they think of Auschwitz, of Dachau; and when they thi
Among Righteous Men: A Tale of Vigilantes and Vindication in Hasidic Crown Heights
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Inside the hidden world of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn's Crown Heights--a close-knit but divided community. On a cold night in December, the members of a Hasidic anti-crime patrol called the Shomrim are summoned to a yeshiva dormitory in Crown Heights.
The Case of Abraham Lincoln: A Story of Adultery, Murder and the Making of a Great President
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Abraham Lincoln in 1856 was at a difficult point, personally. Depressed, edgy, and often despondent, he had grown bored with his work as a lawyer. He saw himself as a former congressman with little future in politics. Then in May of 1856, he became d
Organized Crime: A Very Short Introduction
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For many people around the world, instances of what is described as organized crime may be part of their everyday experience; in their neighborhoods, their streets, and the places they work and live. Policymakers, law enforcement, and the media rarel
How Sex Became a Civil Liberty
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How Sex Became a Civil Liberty is the first book to show how and why we have come to see sexual expression, sexual practice, and sexual privacy as fundamental rights. Using rich archival sources and oral interviews, historian Leigh Ann Wheeler shows
Mississippi River Tragedies: A Century of Unnatural Disaster
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American engineers have done astounding things to bend the Mississippi River to their will: forcing one of its tributaries to flow uphill, transforming over 1000 miles of roiling currents into a placid staircase of water, and wresting the lower half
Stealth Jihad: How Radical Islam Is Subverting America without Guns or Bombs
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Most terrorism experts agree: it is not "if" we are attacked again, but "when." Yet the assault has already happened. A silent battle is being waged on our nation every day. Not with guns and bombs, but via covert sources: Islamic charities, the ACLU
The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson
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Called by The Wall Street Journal "the pick of the litter" among books on the O.J. Simpson criminal trial, this is the definitive commentary on the most famous trial of this century.
Water Tossing Boulders: How a Family of Chinese Immigrants Led the First Fight to Desegregate Schools in the Jim Crowe South
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On September 15, 1924, Martha Lum and her older sister Berda were barred from attending middle school in Rosedale, Mississippi. The girls were Chinese and therefore colored; the school was for whites. This event would lead to the first US Supreme Cou
Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United
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For two centuries, the Framers' ideas about political corruption flourished in the courts, even in the absence of clear rules governing voters, civil officers, and elected officials. In the 1970s, the U.S. Supreme Court began to narrow the definitio
The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan
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On a Friday night in March 1981, Henry Hays and James Knowles scoured the streets of Mobile, hunting for a black man. The young men were members of Klavern 900 of the United Klans of America. The two Klansmen found Michael Donald and abducted him, be
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
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Audie Award Winner, History, 2014
Pulitzer Prize, General Nonfiction, 2013
Arguably the most important American lawyer of the 20th century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S.
A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience
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Beginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America. Villagers - mainly young women - suffered from unseen torments that caused them to writhe, shriek, and c
Denial: Holocaust History on Trial
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[Read by Kate Udall]Denial, previously published as History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier, is Deborah Lipstadt's riveting, blow-by-blow account of this singular legal battle, which resulted in a formal denunciation of a Holocaust
The Supreme Court
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Chief Justice Rehnquist's engaging writing illuminates both the high and low points in the Court's history, from Chief Justice Marshall's dominance of the Court during the early nineteenth century through the landmark decisions of the Warren Court
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