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In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to
Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was
sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana’s Angola
State Prison. In the months before Sonnier’s death, the
Roman Catholic nun came to know a man who was as terrified as he
had once been terrifying.
By the one-time federal prosecutor for the Southern District of
New York, an important overview of the way our justice system
works, and why the rule of law is essential to our society. Using
case histories, personal experiences and his own inviting writing
and teaching style, Preet Bharara shows the thought process we need
to best achieve truth and justice in our daily lives and within our
society.
The fascinating true story of how a group of visionary attorneys
helped make American business synonymous with Big Business, and
Wall Street the center of the financial world
The legal profession once operated on a smaller scale—folksy lawyers arguing for fairness and justice before a judge and jury.
The legal profession once operated on a smaller scale—folksy lawyers arguing for fairness and justice before a judge and jury.
The intimate, inspiring, and authoritative biography of Sandra
Day O’Connor, America’s first female Supreme Court
justice, drawing on exclusive interviews and first-time access to
Justice O’Connor’s archives—by the New York
Times bestselling author Evan Thomas.
The incredible true story of the decade-long quest to bring down
Paul Le Roux—the creator of a frighteningly powerful
Internet-enabled cartel who merged the ruthlessness of a drug lord
with the technological savvy of a Silicon Valley
entrepreneur
“Evan Ratliff has pried open a hidden world of high-tech gangsters and drug kingpins and double-crossers and stone-cold hitmen.
“Evan Ratliff has pried open a hidden world of high-tech gangsters and drug kingpins and double-crossers and stone-cold hitmen.
Was a monstrous killer brought to justice or an innocent mother
condemned.
On an April night in 1989, Jo Ann Parks survived a house fire that claimed the lives of her three small children. Though the fire at first seemed a tragic accident, investigators soon reported finding evidence proving that Parks had sabotaged wiring, set several fires herself, and even barricade her four-year-old son inside a closet to prevent his escape.
On an April night in 1989, Jo Ann Parks survived a house fire that claimed the lives of her three small children. Though the fire at first seemed a tragic accident, investigators soon reported finding evidence proving that Parks had sabotaged wiring, set several fires herself, and even barricade her four-year-old son inside a closet to prevent his escape.
The first full life—private, public, legal,
philosophical—of the 107th Supreme Court Justice, one of the
most profound and profoundly transformative legal minds of our
time; a book fifteen years in work, written with the cooperation of
Ruth Bader Ginsburg herself and based on many interviews with the
justice, her husband, her children, her friends, and
her associates.
“A clarion call to everyone who cares about the American
nation and
every person who calls it home.” —J.D. VANCE, author of Hillbilly Elegy
Why would a son of immigrants call for tighter restrictions on immigration.
every person who calls it home.” —J.D. VANCE, author of Hillbilly Elegy
Why would a son of immigrants call for tighter restrictions on immigration.
In the bestselling tradition of The Nine and The
Brethren, The Most Dangerous Branch takes us inside the
secret world of the Supreme Court. David A. Kaplan, the former
legal affairs editor of Newsweek, shows how the justices subvert
the role of the other branches of government—and how
we’ve come to accept it at our peril.
A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
An award-winning constitutional law scholar at the University of Chicago (who clerked for Judge Merrick B.
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
An award-winning constitutional law scholar at the University of Chicago (who clerked for Judge Merrick B.
“A wonderfully vivid portrait of the man behind Sherlock
Holmes . . . Like all the best historical true crime books,
it’s about so much more than crime.”—Tana French,
author of In the Woods
One of USA Today’s “Five new books you won’t want to miss.
One of USA Today’s “Five new books you won’t want to miss.
The remarkable story of John Marshall who, as chief justice,
statesman, and diplomat, played a pivotal role in the founding of
the United States.
No member of America's Founding Generation had a greater impact on the Constitution and the Supreme Court than John Marshall, and no one did more to preserve the delicate unity of the fledgling United States.
No member of America's Founding Generation had a greater impact on the Constitution and the Supreme Court than John Marshall, and no one did more to preserve the delicate unity of the fledgling United States.
