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The Devil's Defender: My Odyssey Through American Criminal Justice from Ted Bundy to the Kandahar Massacre
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By John Henry Browne
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9781613734872 | Chicago Review Pr, August 1, 2016, cover price $26.99

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9781504727075 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 2016), cover price $29.95
9781504727082 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 2016), cover price $34.95

Love Wins: The Lovers and Lawyers Who Fought the Landmark Case for Marriage Equality
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By Debbie Cenziper and Jim Obergefell
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9780062456083 | William Morrow & Co, June 14, 2016, cover price $27.99

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9781504734905 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, June 14, 2016), cover price $39.99

Stanley Fish, America's Enfant Terrible: The Authorized Biography
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By Gary A. Olson
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9780809334766 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, March 21, 2016, cover price $32.50

Fair Labor Lawyer: The Remarkable Life of New Deal Attorney and Supreme Court Advocate Bessie Margolin
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Product Description: Through a life that spanned every decade of the twentieth century, Supreme Court advocate Bessie Margolin shaped modern American labor policy while creating a place for female lawyers in the nation's highest courts. Despite her beginnings in an orphanage and her rare position as a southern, Jewish woman pursuing a legal profession, Margolin became an important and influential Supreme Court advocate...read more
By Marlene Trestman
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9780807162088 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, March 1, 2016, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Through a life that spanned every decade of the twentieth century, Supreme Court advocate Bessie Margolin shaped modern American labor policy while creating a place for female lawyers in the nation's highest courts.

Leaning on the Arc: A Personal History of Criminal Defense
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By M. Gerald Schwartzbach
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9781634251372 | Amer Bar Assn, April 7, 2016, cover price $29.95

Loren Miller: Civil Rights Attorney and Journalist
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By Amina Hassan
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9780806149165 | Univ of Oklahoma Pr, September 22, 2015, cover price $26.95

Slavish Shore: The Odyssey of Richard Henry Dana Jr.
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Product Description: In 1834 Harvard dropout Richard Henry Dana Jr. sailed to California as a common seaman. His account of the voyage, Two Years Before the Mast, quickly became an American classic. But literary acclaim could not erase the young lawyer’s memory of the brutal floggings he had witnessed aboard ship or undermine the vow he had made to combat injustice...read more
By Jeffrey L. Amestoy
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9780674088191 | Harvard Univ Pr, August 1, 2015, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: In 1834 Harvard dropout Richard Henry Dana Jr.

Redeeming the Dream: Proposition 8 and the Struggle for Marriage Equality
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Product Description: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Breathtakingly inspiring.” —Laurence H. Tribe, Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School When advocates for marriage equality sought to challenge California’s notorious Proposition 8, they were fortunate to have the support of two of the nation’s preeminent lawyers, David Boies and Theodore B...read more
By Theodore B. Olson
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9780147516206 | Plume, June 16, 2015, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Breathtakingly inspiring.

Criminal That I Am: A Memoir
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Product Description: A gripping read, as fascinating as it is shocking ("New York Journal of Books") by a young lawyer who becomes romantically entangled with convicted drug felon Cameron Douglas a page-turning journey through professional self-destruction and tabloid scandal to redemption...read more
By Jennifer Ridha
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9781476785721 | Scribner, May 12, 2015, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A candid memoir from a talented young lawyer who becomes romantically entangled with the convicted drug felon she represents—Cameron Douglas, son of film actor Michael Douglas—and who soon makes the mistake of her life.

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9781476785738 | Reprint edition (Scribner, May 3, 2017), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A gripping read, as fascinating as it is shocking ("New York Journal of Books") by a young lawyer who becomes romantically entangled with convicted drug felon Cameron Douglas a page-turning journey through professional self-destruction and tabloid scandal to redemption.

Klandestine: How a Klan Lawyer and a Checkbook Journalist Helped James Earl Ray Cover Up His Crime
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By Pate Mcmichael
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9781613730706 | Chicago Review Pr, April 1, 2015, cover price $26.95

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9780393092882, titled "In the Human Interest; A Strategy to Stabilize World Population" | W W Norton & Co Inc, December 1, 1974, cover price $6.40 | also contains In the Human Interest; A Strategy to Stabilize World Population

Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA
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By John Rizzo
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9781451673937 | Scribner, January 7, 2014, cover price $28.00

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9781451673944 | Reprint edition (Scribner, October 7, 2014), cover price $17.00

And Give Up Showbiz?: How Fred Levin Beat Big Tobacco, Avoided Two Murder Prosecutions, Became a Chief of Ghana, Earned Boxing Manager of the Year, and Transformed American
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Product Description: In the early ’90s, Big Tobacco was making a killing. There was no entity more powerful, and national tobacco-related deaths numbered in the hundreds of thousands each year. The economic loss from smoking-related illnesses was billions of dollars...read more
By Josh Young
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9781940363189 | Benbella Books, September 16, 2014, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In the early ’90s, Big Tobacco was making a killing.

The Triumph, Tragedy and Lost Legacy of James M Landis: A Life on Fire
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Product Description: James M. Landis - scholar, administrator, advocate, and political adviser - is known for his seminal contribution to the creation of the modern system of market regulation in the US. As a highly influential participant in the politics of the New Deal, Landis drafted the statute which was to become the foundation for Securities Regulation in the US, and, by extension, the founding principle of financial market regulation across the world...read more
By Justin O'Brien
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9781849466172 | Hart Pub, November 20, 2014, cover price $52.00 | About this edition: James M.

Martin Luther King Jr. and the Morality of Legal Practice: Lessons in Love and Justice
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Product Description: This book seeks to reframe our understanding of the lawyer's work by exploring how Martin Luther King Jr. built his advocacy on a coherent set of moral claims regarding the demands of love and justice in light of human nature. King never shirked from staking out challenging claims of moral truth, even while remaining open to working with those who rejected those truths...read more
By Robert K. Vischer
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9781107031227 | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 24, 2012, cover price $109.99 | About this edition: This book seeks to reframe our understanding of the lawyer's work by exploring how Martin Luther King Jr.

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9781107429161 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 10, 2014, cover price $34.99 | About this edition: This book seeks to reframe our understanding of the lawyer's work by exploring how Martin Luther King Jr.

Friend of the Court: On the Front Lines with the First Amendment
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Product Description: Since 1971, when the Pentagon Papers were leaked to the New York Times and furious debate over First Amendment rights ensued, free-speech cases have emerged in rapid succession. Floyd Abrams has been on the front lines of nearly every one of these major cases, which is also to say that, more than any other person, he has forged this country’s legal understanding of free speech...read more
By Floyd Abrams
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9780300190878 | Yale Univ Pr, June 4, 2013, cover price $32.50

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9780300205633 | Yale Univ Pr, June 24, 2014, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Since 1971, when the Pentagon Papers were leaked to the New York Times and furious debate over First Amendment rights ensued, free-speech cases have emerged in rapid succession.

Redeeming the Dream: The Case for Marriage Equality
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Product Description: [Read by Mike Chamberlain] Redeeming the Dream offers listeners an authoritative, dramatic, and up-close account of the most important civil rights issue - fought and won - since Brown v. Board of Education and Loving v. Virginia...read more
By David Boies and Mike Chamberlain (narrator)
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9781483015194 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, June 17, 2014), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: [Read by Mike Chamberlain] Redeeming the Dream offers listeners an authoritative, dramatic, and up-close account of the most important civil rights issue - fought and won - since Brown v.

Redeeming the Dream: Library Edition
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By David Boies
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9781483015187 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, June 17, 2014), cover price $29.95

Redeeming the Dream: The Case for Marriage Equality
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Product Description: The riveting inside story of the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on Proposition 8—by the two lawyers who argued the case On June 26, 2013, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a pair of landmark decisions, striking down the Defense of Marriage Act and eliminating California’s discriminatory Proposition 8, reinstating the freedom to marry for gays and lesbians in California...read more
By David Boies and Theodore B. Olson
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9780670015962 | Viking Pr, June 17, 2014, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: The riveting inside story of the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on Proposition 8—by the two lawyers who argued the case On June 26, 2013, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a pair of landmark decisions, striking down the Defense of Marriage Act and eliminating California’s discriminatory Proposition 8, reinstating the freedom to marry for gays and lesbians in California.

Redeeming the Dream: The Case for Marriage Equality; Library Edition
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By David Boies
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9781483015170 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, June 17, 2014), cover price $100.00

Phoning Home: Essays
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By Jacob M. Appel
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9781611173710 | Univ of South Carolina Pr, May 31, 2014, cover price $24.95

Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA: Library Edition
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Product Description: In 1975, fresh out of law school and working a numbing job at the Treasury Department, John Rizzo took "a total shot in the dark" and sent his resume to the Central Intelligence Agency. He had no notion that more than thirty years later, after serving under eleven CIA directors and seven presidents, he would become a notorious public figure-a symbol and a victim of the toxic winds swirling in post-9/11 Washington...read more
By Pete Larkin (narrator) and John Rizzo
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9781494531966 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, May 13, 2014), cover price $95.99 | About this edition: In 1975, fresh out of law school and working a numbing job at the Treasury Department, John Rizzo took "a total shot in the dark" and sent his resume to the Central Intelligence Agency.

Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA
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Product Description: In 1975, fresh out of law school and working a numbing job at the Treasury Department, John Rizzo took "a total shot in the dark" and sent his resume to the Central Intelligence Agency. He had no notion that more than thirty years later, after serving under eleven CIA directors and seven presidents, he would become a notorious public figure-a symbol and a victim of the toxic winds swirling in post-9/11 Washington...read more
By Pete Larkin (narrator)
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9781494551964 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, May 13, 2014), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: In 1975, fresh out of law school and working a numbing job at the Treasury Department, John Rizzo took "a total shot in the dark" and sent his resume to the Central Intelligence Agency.
9781494501969 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, May 13, 2014), cover price $44.99 | About this edition: In 1975, fresh out of law school and working a numbing job at the Treasury Department, John Rizzo took "a total shot in the dark" and sent his resume to the Central Intelligence Agency.

Her Honor: Rosalie Wahl and the Minnesota Women's Movement
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By Amy Klobuchar (foreword by) and Lori Sturdevant
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9780873518062 | Minnesota Historical Society Pr, March 15, 2014, cover price $18.95

Power Concedes Nothing: The Unfinished Fight for Social Justice in America
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Product Description: The “fierce” and “remarkable” memoir from one of the nation’s most influential and celebrated civil rights attorneys—second cousin of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice—is “a rallying cry for social justice” (More magazine)...read more
By Connie Rice
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9781416544739 | Scribner, February 11, 2014, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: The “fierce” and “remarkable” memoir from one of the nation’s most influential and celebrated civil rights attorneys—second cousin of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice—is “a rallying cry for social justice” (More magazine).

A Streetwise Guide to Litigation
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Product Description: The law is a wonderful profession. It is also demanding and stressful and requires a multitude of talents—speaking, writing, researching, analyzing, advocating, and dealing with people. This engaging collection of articles, from author Kenneth Nolan, captures the insights and knowledge of an experienced litigator...read more
By Kenneth P. Nolan
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9781614387558 | Amer Bar Assn, February 7, 2014, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: The law is a wonderful profession.

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