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Democracy Reborn
The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America
Garrett Epps
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"The 14th Amendment was 'by far the most sweeping and complex change ever made in the original Constitution,' argues Garrett Epps in this valuable history of the amendment's adoption. Over time, he writes, it has 'changed almost every detail of our national life.' A University of Oregon law professor and former
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reporter who has published two novels, Epps brings crisp writing to a story whose political complexities and obscure cast of characters pose tall hurdles for any popular history."—
David Garrow,
The Washington Post
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The Race Card
How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse
Richard Thompson Ford
Picador
"Mr. Ford, a clear and lively writer, probes and prods and provokes as he steers his way through this contested terrain. He takes dead aim at racial opportunists, opponents of affirmative action, multiculturalists and the myriad rights organizations trying to hitch a ride on the successes of the black civil rights movement. All, in different ways, he argues, are playing the race card. All are harming the cause of civil rights."—
William Grimes,
The New York Times
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The Party of the First Part
The Curious World of Legalese
Adam Freedman
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"A lighthearted but lucid explanation of legalese."—
William Safire,
The New York Times
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Life on the Outside
The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett
Jennifer Gonnerman
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National Book Award Finalist
"
Life on the Outside
is a powerful indictment of mandatory minimums, but the book isn't just about the way New York locks people up. It's also about what happens to the people who are left behind when somebody gets incarcerated, and what happens to prisoners once they get home. A book-length examination of this subject was long overdue . . . Gonnerman's compelling and moving account is a call to arms for further reform. At the same time, however, by virtue of the thoroughness and honesty of Gonnerman's reporting,
Life on the Outside
also points up the limitations of the criminal justice reform movement . . . [This book helps us] understand that mass incarceration, that incredibly ambitious enterprise at which this country has excelled far beyond any other, is not part of the solution . . .
Life on the Outside
is a masterpiece."—
Nate Blakeslee,
The Texas Observer
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Becoming Justice Blackmun
Harry Blackmun's Supreme Court Journey
Linda Greenhouse
Times Books
"Ms. Greenhouse's achievement in her meticulous narrative history is to provide new ammunition for Justice Blackmun's critics as well as his admirers. And readers who are unfamiliar with the inner workings of the court could not hope for a more engrossing introduction."—
Jeffrey Rosen,
The New York Times
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Convictions
A Prosecutor’s Battles Against Mafia Killers, Drug Kingpins, and Enron Thieves
John Kroger
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“John Kroger’s
Convictions
is the best book about being a federal prosecutor since Jeffrey Toobin’s
Opening Arguments
. It is an engrossing look at how some of the most famous criminal cases of our era were built and won, and probably the frankest discussion ever of the extraordinary ethical dilemmas that go with wielding the government’s crushing power over lives.”—
Scott Turow, author of
Limitations
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The Challenge
How a Maverick Navy Officer and a Young Law Professor Risked Their Careers to Defend the Constitution--and Won
Jonathan Mahler
Picador
"[
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Anthony Lewis,
The New York Review of Books
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The Supreme Court
The Personalities and Rivalries That Defined America
Jeffrey Rosen
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"Part scholar, part popularist, [Rosen] has fashioned a set of Plutarchian pairings of leading legal figures that combines fine biography with nuanced discussions of jurisprudential debates, from the founding to the present . . . He had me on the first page."—
Slate
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Life Behind Bars in America
Michael G.Santos
St. Martin's Griffin
"[A] revealing, compelling book . . . At the heart of Santos's frequently harrowing book is a simple argument: Prisons have become places where crime does pay."—
Edward Humes,
Los Angeles Times Book Review
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Coal River
Michael Shnayerson
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“Michael Shnayerson has ventured into one of the roughest and remotest parts of America and emerged with a brilliant and devastating work on the greed of the coal mining industry. I found myself hoping that certain people named in this book will read it and experience that sick fear of knowing their game is about to come to an end. Indeed, that is one of the very satisfying things about this book: As horrifying as the story is, there is the real and very beautiful possibility that justice will prevail in the end.”—
Sebastian Junger, author of
The Perfect Storm
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Picking Cotton
Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton with Erin Torneo
St. Martin's Press
"
Picking Cotton
is a brave, important book. It puts human faces on the problem of wrongful conviction caused by faulty eyewitness testimony and shows how even good people with the best intentions can get things terribly wrong."—
Elizabeth Loftus, Ph.D, Past President, Association for Psychological Science and author of
Eyewitness Testimony
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Ultimate Punishment
A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty
Scott Turow
Picador
"In that rarest of achievements, a page-turner filled with genuine wisdom, Scott Turow takes us on a mesmerizing voyage through the land of murder, holding us spellbound as we arrive finally at the secret lying at the heart of every one of Turow's gripping novels, a secret whose revelation exposes what we truly seek from capital punishment—and why we will never find it there. Written with a fine lawyer's feel for fairness and with a superb novelist's gift for telling us truths beyond the power of law's logic to express,
Ultimate Punishment
is the ultimate statement about the death penalty: to read it is to understand why law alone cannot make us whole."—
Laurence H. Tribe, Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School
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Slavery's Constitution
From Revolution to Ratification
David Waldstreicher
Hill and Wang
"Was the American Constitution as originally ratified a proslavery document? In this unflinching, deeply intelligent, and persuasive work, David Waldstreicher answers yes. Sure to spark interest and debate,
Slavery's Constitution
is an immensely engaging and valuable contribution to the literature on the founding of the American nation."—
Annette Gordon-Reed, professor of law at New York Law School and winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in History
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Evil
Inside Human Violence and Cruelty
Roy F. Baumeister, Ph.D.; With a New Foreword by Aaron Beck
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Why is there evil, and what can scientific research tell us about the origins and persistence of evil behavior? Considering evil from the unusual perspective...
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Ethical Ambition
Living a Life of Meaning and Worth
Derrick Bell
Bloomsbury USA
"
Ethical Ambition
is an immensely stirring work that speaks directly to the daunting challenge faced by thousands of people who are torn between the dictates of their conscience and the practical realities of a remorselessly and often brutally competitive society. Seldom has the self-sustaining passion of a life lived boldly, but with self-examining humility, been so courageously and honestly conveyed. A generation thirsting for a life of meaning in an age of market-driven anomie will be profoundly grateful to the author for the lessons he has drawn out of a long career of activist integrity within the ever-uncompleted work of justice."—
Jonathan Kozol, author of
Savage Inequalities
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The Exonerated
A Play
Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen
Faber and Faber, Inc.
"[A] stark, spellbinding play [and] a profoundly moving excursion through the cracks in the justice system."—
Peter Marks,
The Washington Post
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Medication Madness
The Role of Psychiatric Drugs in Cases of Violence, Suicide, and Crime
Peter R. Breggin, M.D.
St. Martin's Griffin
In Medication Madness, psychiatrist Peter R. Breggin, M.D., describes how people taking psychiatric medication can experience abnormal behavioral reactions,...
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Education of a Felon
A Memoir
Edward Bunker
St. Martin's Griffin
In Education of a Felon, the reigning champion of prison novelists finally tells his own story. The son of an alcoholic stagehand father and a Busby Berkeley...
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A Lawyer's Life
Johnnie Cochran with David Fisher
St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
The most famous lawyer in America talks about the law, his life, and how he has won. Johnnie Cochran has been a lawyer for almost forty years. In that time,...
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Crime and Punishment in America
Elliott Currie
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There are five times as many Americans behind bars today as in 1970. The national incarceration rate in 1997 was twice that in 1985. California's prison system...
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Maggots, Murder, and Men
Memories and Reflections of a Forensic Entomologist
Dr. Zakaria Erzinçlioglu
St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
The science of forensic entomology-the application of insect biology to the investigation of crime-is extremely specialized, combining as it does an expert...
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Edison and the Electric Chair
A Story of Light and Death
Mark Essig
Walker & Company
A Discover magazine Top Science Book Thomas Edison stunned America in 1879 by unveiling a world-changing invention--the light bulb--and then launching the...
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Every Contact Leaves a Trace
Crime Scene Experts Talk About Their Work from Discovery Through Verdict
Connie Fletcher
St. Martin's Press
Real crime scene investigation is vastly more complicated, arduous, bizarre, and fascinating than TV’s streamlined versions. Most people who work actual...
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Our Posthuman Future
Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution
Francis Fukuyama
Picador
"In this groundbreaking inquiry, Fukuyama warns that advances in drugs and genetic engineering will allow society to control human behavior and manipulate physical characteristics—and this power could alter our understanding of what it means to be human . . . In a contentious and fast-moving policy area, Fukuyama provides a remarkably sensible and human vision of what is at stake and what needs to be done."—
Foreign Affairs
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