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  • Watch Everything

    A Judicial Memoir with a Point of View

    Charles A. Shaw grew up in a segregated African-American neighborhood in St. Louis. His tight-knit community supported him, and he was inspired to become first a teacher and then a lawyer. From there, he worked his way up to federal prosecutor and state judge before President Bill Clinton appointed him to the federal bench.Shaw quickly became dismayed by the inequality and severity of mandatory U ... Read more

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  • The Fact of a Body

    A Murder and a Memoir

    **"Complex and challenging... push[es] the boundaries of writing about trauma." —**The New York Times“A True Crime Masterpiece” – VogueEntertainment Weekly "Must" List and Best Books of the Year So FarReal Simple's Best New BooksGuardian Best Book of the YearLambda Literary Award WinnerChautauqua Prize Winner"The Fact of a Body is one of ... ... Read more

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  • Clarence Darrow

    Attorney for the Damned

    Drawing on untapped archives and full of fresh revelations, here is the definitive biography of America’s legendary defense attorney and progressive hero.Clarence Darrow is the lawyer every law school student dreams of being: on the side of right, loved by many women, played by Spencer Tracy in Inherit the Wind. His days-long closing arguments delivered without notes won miraculous reprieves for ... Read more

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  • Happy Hour Is for Amateurs

    Work Sucks. Life Doesn't Have To.

    For some people, happy hour is never enoughThis is a book about escape. It's also about laughing gas. And bourbon and dope and sex and mushrooms and every other vice millions of us indulge in to forget our jobs, the office, and the stifling, corporate caricatures we're forced to become for paychecks. This is a book about a decade lost in a senseless career no one likes and all the ridiculous ... Read more

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  • Convictions

    A Prosecutor's Battles Against Mafia Killers, Drug Kingpins, and Enron Thieves

    by John Kroger ...
    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 nation's most dangerous criminals. John Kroger pursued high-profile cases against Mafia killers, drug kingpins, and Enron executives. Starting from ... Read more

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  • Whisper of Fear

    The True Story of the Prosecutor Who Stalks the Stalkers

    From the woman who wrote the law on stalking comes the story of the chilling experiences that shaped her career.Stalking is among the most ancient, common, and widely-discussed of all anti-social behaviors, yet this dangerous behavior is underappreciated as a serious problem.Anyone can be a stalker, and anyone can be a stalking victim—especially today with so much personal information readily ... Read more

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  • Fight Back and Win

    My Thirty-Year Fight Against Injustice—And How You Can Win Your Own Battles

    Voted by her peers as one of the best lawyers in America, and described by Time magazine as "one of the nation's most effective advocates of family rights and feminist causes," Allred has devoted her career to fighting for civil rights and has won hundreds of millions of dollars for victims of abuse. She has taken on countless institutions to promote equality, including the Boy Scouts, the Friars ... Read more

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  • Madame Prosecutor

    Confrontations with Humanity's Worst Criminals and the Culture of Impunity

    Carla Del Ponte won international recognition as Switzerland's attorney general when she pursued cases against the Sicilian mafia. In 1999, she answered the United Nations' call to become the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda. In her new role, Del Ponte confronted genocide and crimes against humanity head-on, struggling to bring to ... Read more

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  • Thurgood Marshall

    American Revolutionary

    by Juan Williams ...
    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • The definitive biography of the great lawyer and Supreme Court justice, from the bestselling author of Eyes on the Prize“Magisterial . . . in Williams’ richly detailed portrait, Marshall emerges as a born rebel.”—Jack E. White, TimeThurgood Marshall was the twentieth century’s great architect of American race relations. His victory in the Brown v. Board of Education ... Read more

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  • A Life of Crime

    The Memoirs of a High Court Judge

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    A frank and witty memoir of life at the Bar and on the Bench, from former High Court Judge The Hon. Sir Harry Ognall.For many years, Harry Ognall enjoyed a formidable reputation as an advocate at the criminal Bar. As counsel, and later as judge, he was involved in numerous high-profile trials, both in Britain and abroad.Among many cases as a QC, he prosecuted Peter Sutcliffe, the so-called ... Read more

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  • Sonia Sotomayor

    The True American Dream

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    "Necessary reading" (Booklist) from a New York Times bestselling biographer.Drawing on in-depth interviews with Sonia Sotomayor's former colleagues, family, friends, and teachers, New York Times bestselling biographer Antonia Felix explores Sotomayor's childhood, the values her parents instilled in her, and the events that propelled her to the highest court in the land. With insight and thoughtful ... Read more

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