Product Description: In a reporting tour de force, award-winning journalist Steven Brill takes an uncompromising look at the adults who are fighting over America’s failure to educate its children―and points the way to reversing that failure.Brill’s vivid narrative―filled with unexpected twists and turns―takes us from the Oval Office, where President Obama signs off on an unprecedented plan that will infuriate the teachers’ unions because it offers billions to states that win an education reform “contest”; to boisterous assemblies, where parents join the fight over their children’s schools; to a Fifth Avenue apartment, where billionaires plan a secret fund to promote school reform; to a Colorado high school, where students who seemed destined to fail are instead propelled to college; to state capitols across the country, where school reformers hoping to win Obama’s “contest” push bills that would have been unimaginable a few years ago...read more

Product Description: In a reporting tour de force, award-winning journalist Steven Brill takes an uncompromising look at the adults who are fighting over America’s failure to educate its children―and points the way to reversing that failure.Brill’s vivid narrative―filled with unexpected twists and turns―takes us from the Oval Office, where President Obama signs off on an unprecedented plan that will infuriate the teachers’ unions because it offers billions to states that win an education reform “contest”; to boisterous assemblies, where parents join the fight over their children’s schools; to a Fifth Avenue apartment, where billionaires plan a secret fund to promote school reform; to a Colorado high school, where students who seemed destined to fail are instead propelled to college; to state capitols across the country, where school reformers hoping to win Obama’s “contest” push bills that would have been unimaginable a few years ago...read more

Considers how America has and has not changed in the year after September 11, recounting events in the White House, Capitol corridors, Red Cross boardroom, military training centers, and civilian homes to reveal how the nation is managing grief and working to defend itself from further attacks. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

Product Description: The critics unanimously agree that brilliant, award-winning reporter and bestselling author Steven Brill has written a powerful and sweeping narrative of the country in the first year of the September 12 era. As "the pages flutter" -- marvels one critic -- "in a race to learn the rest of the story we thought we knew so well," Brill takes us from the White House Situation Room to the living rooms of victims' families, from courtrooms to boardrooms, from border crossings to airport tarmacs...read more

Product Description: Book by Writers of Brill's Content

Provides reference information to questions about law by using anecdotes from everyday life

The Mighty Ducks hockey team is invited to play as Team USA at the Junior Goodwill Games

Sentenced to community service, Gordon Bombay, a successful lawyer, begins coaching the District Five peewee hockey team

Analyzes seventeen recent courtroom trials, offering a look at how the American justice system operates, through interviews with attorneys, jurors, and other key personalities