Legal History
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Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media
$32.00 Add to cart“The best history of free speech ever written and the best defense of free speech ever made.” —P.J. O’Rourke
Hailed as the “first freedom,” free speech is the bedrock of democracy. But it is a challen
- Author: McHangama, Jacob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1541600495
- Language: English
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The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials: A Personal Memoir
$29.99 Add to cart“A masterly work of military and judicial history.” —New York Times. Telford Taylor’s book is a defining piece of World War II literature, an engrossing and reflective eyewitness account of one of th… [more below]
- Author: Taylor, Telford
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: May 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1620877880
- Language: English
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Demand the Impossible: One Lawyer’s Pursuit of Equal Justice for All
$29.99 Add to cartStephen Bright emerged on the scene as a cause lawyer in the early decades of mass incarceration, when inflammatory politics and harsh changes to criminal justice policy were crashing down on the most
- Author: Tsai, Robert L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0393867838
- Language: English
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Skywalks: Robert Gordon’s Untold Story of Hallmark’s Kansas City Disaster
$34.95 Add to cartIn 1981 the suspended walkways–or “skywalks”–in Kansas City’s Hyatt Regency hotel fell and killed 114 people. It was the deadliest building collapse in the United States until the fall of New York’s… [more below]
- Author: Paul, R. Eli
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496233131
- Language: English
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The Lakotas and the Black Hills: The Struggle for Sacred Ground
$18.00 Add to cartA concise and engrossing account of the Lakota and the battle to regain their homeland.
The Lakota Indians made their home in the majestic Black Hills mountain range during the last millennium, draw- Author: Ostler, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 28 2011
- ISBN10: 0143119206
- Language: English
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Treaty Justice: The Northwest Tribes, the Boldt Decision, and the Recognition of Fishing Rights
$34.95 Add to cartIn 1974, Judge George Boldt issued a ruling that affirmed the fishing rights and tribal sovereignty of Native nations in Washington State. The Boldt Decision transformed Indigenous law and resource ma
- Author: Wilkinson, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0295752726
- Language: English
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The Rule of Laws: A 4,000-Year Quest to Order the World
$35.00 Read moreFrom ancient Mesopotamia to today, the epic story of how humans have used laws to forge civilizations
Rulers throughout history have used laws to impose order. But laws were not simply&#- Author: Pirie, Fernanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: November 09, 2021
- ISBN10: 1541617940
- Language: English
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Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America
$18.95 Add to cartGunfight is a timely work examining America’s four-centuries-long political battle over gun control and the right to bear arms. In this definitive and provocative history, Adam Winkler reveals how gun… [more below]
- Author: Winkler, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0393345831
- Language: English
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To a High Court: Five Bold Law Students Challenge Corporate Greed and Change the Law
$35.99 Add to cartFall 1971. Richard Nixon is in the White House. Five George Washington University law students form Students Challenging Regulatory Agency Procedures (SCRAP). SCRAP’s intent: to challenge the corporat… [more below]
- Author: Proto, Neil Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: April 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1039180493
- Language: English
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Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion
$21.99 Add to cartThe Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the Scopes Trial and the battle over evolution and creation in America’s schools
In the summer of 1925, the sleepy hamlet of Dayton, Tennessee, became the settin- Author: Larson, Edward J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 16 2020
- ISBN10: 1541646037
- Language: English
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Judgment and Mercy: The Turbulent Life and Times of the Judge Who Condemned the Rosenbergs
$35.95 Add to cartAs featured on CBS Saturday Morning. Finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize.
In Judgment and Mercy, Martin J. Siegel offers an insightful and compelling biography of Irvi
- Author: Siegel, Martin J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1501768522
- Language: English
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By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners
$19.95 Read moreIf the law cannot protect a person from a lynching, then isn’t lynching the law?
In By Hands Now Known, Margaret A. Burnham, director of Northeastern University’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice P
- Author: Burnham, Margaret A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1324066059
- Language: English
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The Law Book
$34.99 Add to cartLearn about the most important legal milestones in history in The Law Book.
Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. L… [more below]- Series: Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0744020417
- Language: English
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Bourbon Justice: How Whiskey Law Shaped America
$21.95 Add to cartBourbon whiskey has made a surprising contribution to American legal history. Tracking the history of bourbon and bourbon law illuminates the development of the United States as a nation, from conquer… [more below]
- Author: Haara, Brian F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: July 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1640124276
- Language: English
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To a High Court: Five Bold Law Students Challenge Corporate Greed and Change the Law
$22.99 Add to cartFall 1971. Richard Nixon is in the White House. Five George Washington University law students form Students Challenging Regulatory Agency Procedures (SCRAP). SCRAP’s intent: to challenge the corporat… [more below]
- Author: Proto, Neil Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: April 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1039180485
- Language: English
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The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde: The First Uncensored Transcript of the Trial of Oscar Wilde Vs. John Douglas, Marquess of Queensberry, 1895
$21.99 Add to cartOscar Wilde had one of literary history’s mostexplosive love affairs with Lord Alfred “Bosie”Douglas. In 1895, Bosie’s father, the Marquessof Queensberry, delivered a note to the Albemarle Clubaddress
- Author: Holland, Merlin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: October 05 2004
- ISBN10: 000715805X
- Language: English
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Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe: Complicity and Conscience in America’s World War II Concentration Camps
$30.00 Add to cartIt is 1942, and World War II is raging. In the months since Pearl Harbor, the US has plunged into the war overseas–and on the home front, it has locked up tens of thousands of innocent Japanese Ameri… [more below]
- Author: Muller, Eric L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 16, 2023
- ISBN10: 1469673975
- Language: English
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By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners
$30.00 Add to cartIf the law cannot protect a person from a lynching, then isn’t lynching the law?
In By Hands Now Known, Margaret A. Burnham, director of Northeastern University’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice P
- Author: Burnham, Margaret A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 27, 2022
- ISBN10: 0393867854
- Language: English
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The Sewing Girl’s Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America
$19.99 Add to cartNew York Times Editors’ Choice
Winner of the Bancroft Prize
Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize
Winner of the Gotham Book Prize
Winner of the New York Society Library’s New York City Book Award
Journal of- Author: Sweet, John Wood
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 1250871484
- Language: English
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The People’s Justice: Clarence Thomas and the Constitutional Stories That Define Him
$32.99 Read more“Amul Thapar sets the record straight with this can’t-put-down series of stories that reveal the courage, decency, and humanity of the man behind what many are calling the Thomas Court.”
–Megyn Kelly- Author: Thapar, Amul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1684514525
- Language: English
