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The price of justice: a true story of greed and corruption
By Laurence Leamer. 2013
Author of The Kennedy Women (DB 40698) and The Kennedy Men (DB 54584) discusses the litigation surrounding the Massey Energy…
Company and its operations in West Virginia and profiles the personalities involved. Focuses on lawyers Bruce E. Stanley and David B. Fawcett and Massey CEO Donald Blankenship. 2013The fall of the house of Zeus: the rise and ruin of America's most powerful trial lawyer
By Curtis Wilkie. 2011
Chronicles the career of Mississippi attorney and brother-in-law of former senator Trent Lott, Dick Scruggs, who won fame and fortune…
for litigation against the asbestos and tobacco industries. Details Scruggs's downfall after he was indicted in 2007 for attempting to bribe a judge. Some strong language. 2010Scalia: a court of one
By Bruce Allen Murphy. 2014
Author of Fortas (DB 29142) examines the life and impact of Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia (born 1936). Discusses Scalia's…
upbringing in a strictly Catholic Italian-American family, his early political forays, his law career, and his time on the Supreme Court. Considers the impact of his personality on court decisions. 2014The Second Amendment: a biography
By Michael Waldman. 2014
Lawyer discusses the history of the second amendment of the Bill of Rights, from its original focus on the armament…
of state militias to the interpretation of it in the early twenty-first century. Analyzes influences like the National Rifle Association and the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary. 2014No place to hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. surveillance state
By Glenn Greenwald. 2014
Journalist and former lawyer Greenwald describes being contacted by Edward Snowden regarding top secret documents he obtained while working at…
the National Security Agency (NSA), the process of writing the articles about the story, and the fallout of the revelations. Examines justifications for state surveillance of citizens. Bestseller. 2014The divide: American injustice in the age of the wealth gap
By Matt Taibbi, Molly Crabapple. 2014
Journalist examines the growing wealth disparity in the United States and how it affects the justice system. Taibbi asks why…
it appears that people with low incomes and few resources are more likely to be convicted of crimes, especially with much white-collar crime going unprosecuted. Bestseller. 2014Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist reveals the methods that governments, organizations, companies, and criminals use to scoop up personal data from the…
Internet. Describes the techniques she employed to evade those "dragnets"--such as not using Gmail or Google's search engine--and discusses untraceable technology options. 2014Kitty Genovese: the murder, the bystanders, the crime that changed America
By Kevin Cook. 2014
Author of Titanic Thompson (DB 73236) details the 1964 murder of New York bartender Kitty Genovese. Examines the erroneous but…
much-publicized claim that no one came to Genovese's aid. Provides a portrait of the victim and her killer. 2014The inventor and the tycoon: a Gilded Age murder and the birth of moving pictures
By Edward Ball. 2013
Author of The Genetic Strand (DB 66508) examines the intertwining lives of photographer Edward Muybridge (1830-1904) and San Francisco railroad…
baron Leland Stanford (1824-1893). Details the events surrounding Muybridge's trial for killing his wife's lover and his collaboration with Stanford on early motion pictures. Some violence. 2013Blinded by sight: seeing race through the eyes of the blind
By Osagie K Obasogie, Osagie Obasogie. 2014
Legal scholar explores the ways blind people experience racial differences. Argues that we are socialized to attach particular characteristics to…
race regardless of our ability to see and considers the implications of that convention on efforts to achieve a "colorblind" society. 2014Devil in the grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the dawn of a new America
By Gilbert King. 2012
Details the events that led to the Supreme Court's 1951 decision in Shepherd v. Florida, which overturned the convictions of…
three black men accused of raping a white teenager. Highlights the role played by NAACP attorney--and future Supreme Court justice--Thurgood Marshall. Violence and strong language. Pulitzer Prize. 2012Exposed: the secret life of Jodi Arias
By Jane Velez-Mitchell. 2013
Broadcast journalist recaps the trial of Jodi Arias, convicted of the June 2008 murder of her off-and-on lover Travis Alexander…
in Mesa, Arizona. Details the investigation and the often-graphic testimony of detectives, friends, and Arias herself. Some violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2013Empty mansions: the mysterious life of Huguette Clark and the spending of a great American fortune
By Paul Clark Newell, Bill Dedman. 2013
Newell and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dedman detail the life of Newell's cousin, socialite Huguette Clark (1906-2011), the eccentric daughter of…
a Gilded Age copper tycoon and politician. They chronicle Clark's latter years--when she lived in a hospital room while her mansions sat empty--and battles over her estate. Bestseller. 2013The inheritor's powder: a tale of arsenic, murder, and the new forensic science
By Sandra Hempel. 2013
Medical journalist relates the 1833 poisoning of the Bodle family patriarch George in Kent, England. Describes the trial of George's…
grandson Young John for murder and the development of a new test for the presence of arsenic. 2013Anne Perry and the murder of the century
By Peter Graham. 2013
Describes the notorious 1954 New Zealand matricide committed by teenage friends Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme, who later became bestselling…
mystery writer Anne Perry. Discusses the girls' plans to run away and become writers, their trial and prison terms, and their lives since their release. Some violence. 2013Account of the arrest of John Lawrence and Tyron Garner on September 17, 1998, in Houston, Texas, for a same-sex…
violation. Follows their case to the United States Supreme Court, where a 2003 decision invalidated laws against sodomy. Some strong language. 2012Waiting to be heard: a memoir
By Amanda Knox. 2013
Author describes her experience in Perugia, Italy, where the then-twenty-year-old American student was accused of murdering her British roommate in…
2007. Details her interrogations, arrest, 2009 court trial and conviction, four-year incarceration, and the 2011 appeal that resulted in her acquittal. 2013Kids for cash: two judges, thousands of children, and a $2.8 million kickback scheme
By William Ecenbarger. 2012
Award-winning reporter recounts the scheme of two Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, judges who received kickbacks for sending several thousand juveniles to…
for-profit detention centers between 2003 and 2008. Portrays the youth and their families and examines the consequences of widespread political corruption. 2012Out of order: stories from the history of the Supreme Court
By Sandra Day O'Connor. 2013
The Supreme Court's first female justice traces the history and evolution of the institution from its first sessions in 1790…
to the twenty-first century. Discusses landmark cases and presents portraits of justices who shaped U.S. law. Includes the text of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. Bestseller. 2013