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Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary

by Juan Williams

This New York Times Notable Book of the Year, 1998, is now in trade paper.

From the bestselling author of Eyes on the Prize, here is the definitive biography of the great lawyer and Supreme Court justice.

From...


A Defiant Life: Thurgood Marshall and the Persistence of Racism in America

by Howard Ball

Thurgood Marshall's extraordinary contribution to civil rights and overcoming racism is more topical than ever, as the national debate on race and the overturning of affirmative action policies make headlines...


Sex, Love, and Money

by J.D., Gerald Nissenbaum & John Sedgwick

One of the nation's top divorce lawyers opens his case files to share true stories that rival the most outrageous fiction

Gerald Nissenbaum knows everything about his clients-how much is in their bank accounts,...


Fight Back and Win

by Gloria Allred

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...


Louis D. Brandeis: A Life

by Melvin Urofsky

The first full-scale biography in twenty-five years of one of the most important and distinguished justices to sit on the Supreme Court–a book that reveals Louis D. Brandeis the reformer, lawyer, and jurist,...


Bus Ride to Justice (Revised Edition): Changing the System by the System, the Life and Works of Fred Gray

by Fred D. Gray

First published in 1995, Bus Ride to Justice, the best-selling autobiography by acclaimed civil rights attorney Fred D. Gray, appears now in a newly revised edition that updates Gray's remarkable career of "destroying...


Another Country, Another Life: Calumny, Love, and the Secrets of Isaac Jelfs

by J. Patrick Boyer

Quiet Isaac Jelfs led many hard lives, his escape from each wrapped in deep secrecy. In 1869 he reached Toronto and started his new life with his new wife and his new name. His great-grandson follows that journey,...


Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo

by Oscar Zeta Acosta

Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano layer and notorious as the real-life model for Hunter S. Thompson's "Dr. Gonzo," a fat, pugnacious...


The Revolt of the Cockroach People

by Oscar Zeta Acosta

The further adventures of "Dr. Gonzo" as he defends the "cucarachas" -- the Chicanos of East Los Angeles.

Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin...


Trial and Error: The Education of a Courtroom Lawyer

by John C. Tucker

Trial and Error offers an unexpurgated examination of the past half-century of American jurisprudence through the life of one of America’s most celebrated and accomplished lawyers. Here is John C. Tucker,...


Clarence Darrow

by Andrew E. Kersten

Clarence Darrow is best remembered for his individual cases, whether defending the thrill killers Leopold and Loeb or John Scopes’s right to teach evolution in the classroom. In the first full-length biography...


My FBI

by Louis J. Freeh

Louis Freeh led the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1993 to 2001, through some of the most tumultuous times in its long history. This is the story of a life in law enforcement, and of one man’s determined...


The Case of Abraham Lincoln

by Julie M. Fenster & Douglas Brinkley

The year 1856 was a pivotal one for this country, witnessing the birth of the Republican Party as we know it.  But it was also a critical year in the troubled political life of Abraham Lincoln.  As a lawyer,...


Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion

by Seth Stern & Stephen Wermiel

A biography of the driving force behind the Warren Court’s most progressive decisions, based on exclusive interviews with Brennan and unprecedented access to documents not available to the public until 2017:...


The Partisan: The Life of William Rehnquist

by John A. Jenkins

The first full biography of William Rehnquist— the iconoclastic, influential chief justice who shaped the current court and moved it decisively to the right


A Private Life: Fragments, Memories, Friends

by Michael Kirby

A collection of reminiscences that reaveal the private Michael Kirby. Speaking in his own voice, he opens up as never before in a beautifully written, reflective and generous memoir - one that Michael Kirby's...


Thurgood Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions, and Reminiscences

by Mark V. V. Tushnet & Randall Kennedy

Much has been written about Thurgood Marshall, but this is the first book to collect his own words. Here are briefs he filed as a lawyer, oral arguments for the landmark school desegregation cases, investigative...


Raw Life: Cameos of 1890s Justice from a Magistrate's Bench Book

by J. Patrick Patrick Boyer, Roy McMurtry & Edward L. L. Greenspan

In publishing the human stories behind the late-19th-century cases of Magistrate James Boyer in Bracebridge, Ontario, and Muskoka, his great-grandson J. Patrick Boyer shows that Canadian society hasn't changed...


In the Ring: The Trials of a Washington Lawyer

by Robert S. Bennett

Robert S. Bennett has been a lawyer for more than forty years. In that time, he’s taken on dozens of high-profile and groundbreaking cases and emerged as the go-to guy for the nation’s elite. Bob Bennett...


Citizen Lane: Defending Our Rights in the Courts, the Capitol, and the Streets

by Mark Lane & Martin Sheen

A fascinating memoir . . . well documented, dramatic, and brilliantly crafted."  Robert K. Tanenbaum, first deputy counsel, congressional investigation committee on JFK assassination   Freedom Rider, friend...