Bestsellers
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The Shadow Docket
- How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic
- By: Stephen Vladeck
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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An acclaimed legal scholar exposes the Supreme Court’s increasing use of unsigned, unexplained orders to change the law—all behind closed doors....
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Where was Vladeck?
- By SorenKMiller on 05-25-23
By: Stephen Vladeck
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The Brethren
- Inside the Supreme Court
- By: Bob Woodward, Scott Armstrong
- Narrated by: Holter Graham
- Length: 20 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong have pierced its secrecy to give us an unprecedented view of the Supreme Court in action - the maneuvering, arguing, politicking, compromising, and decision-making that affect every major area of American life....
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Amazing
- By Andy on 03-28-19
By: Bob Woodward, and others
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The Agenda
- How a Republican Supreme Court Is Reshaping America
- By: Ian Millhiser
- Narrated by: David H. Lawrence
- Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Vox correspondent Ian Millhiser tells the story of what the six very conservative Republicans Supreme Court justices are likely to do with their power. The Agenda exposes a radically altered Supreme Court whose powers extend far beyond transforming any individual right....
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short but informative
- By Matt Gilbert on 10-04-21
By: Ian Millhiser
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Saving Nine
- The Fight Against the Left's Audacious Plan to Pack the Supreme Court and Destroy American Liberty
- By: Mike Lee
- Narrated by: James Edward Thomas
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
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In this national bestseller, discover how the left’s partisan push to pack the Supreme Court with liberal justices has fully migrated from the fringes into the mainstream of Democratic politics....
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Senator Lee knows the Law!
- By Mark N Olsen on 01-12-23
By: Mike Lee
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The Nine
- Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
- By: Jeffrey Toobin
- Narrated by: Don Leslie
- Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
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Based on exclusive interviews with justices themselves, The Nine tells the story of the Supreme Court through personalities....
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The Nine
- By Dc on 10-04-07
By: Jeffrey Toobin
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Too Close to Call
- The Thirty-Six-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election
- By: Jeffrey Toobin
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
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Jeffrey Toobin is the ideal writer to distill the events of the 36 anxiety-filled days that culminated in one of the most stunning Supreme Court decisions in history....
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Wow......
- By Micah M. on 06-02-17
By: Jeffrey Toobin
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The Shadow Docket
- How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic
- By: Stephen Vladeck
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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An acclaimed legal scholar exposes the Supreme Court’s increasing use of unsigned, unexplained orders to change the law—all behind closed doors....
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Where was Vladeck?
- By SorenKMiller on 05-25-23
By: Stephen Vladeck
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The Brethren
- Inside the Supreme Court
- By: Bob Woodward, Scott Armstrong
- Narrated by: Holter Graham
- Length: 20 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong have pierced its secrecy to give us an unprecedented view of the Supreme Court in action - the maneuvering, arguing, politicking, compromising, and decision-making that affect every major area of American life....
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Amazing
- By Andy on 03-28-19
By: Bob Woodward, and others
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The Agenda
- How a Republican Supreme Court Is Reshaping America
- By: Ian Millhiser
- Narrated by: David H. Lawrence
- Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Vox correspondent Ian Millhiser tells the story of what the six very conservative Republicans Supreme Court justices are likely to do with their power. The Agenda exposes a radically altered Supreme Court whose powers extend far beyond transforming any individual right....
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short but informative
- By Matt Gilbert on 10-04-21
By: Ian Millhiser
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Saving Nine
- The Fight Against the Left's Audacious Plan to Pack the Supreme Court and Destroy American Liberty
- By: Mike Lee
- Narrated by: James Edward Thomas
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
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In this national bestseller, discover how the left’s partisan push to pack the Supreme Court with liberal justices has fully migrated from the fringes into the mainstream of Democratic politics....
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Senator Lee knows the Law!
- By Mark N Olsen on 01-12-23
By: Mike Lee
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The Nine
- Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
- By: Jeffrey Toobin
- Narrated by: Don Leslie
- Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Based on exclusive interviews with justices themselves, The Nine tells the story of the Supreme Court through personalities....
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The Nine
- By Dc on 10-04-07
By: Jeffrey Toobin
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Too Close to Call
- The Thirty-Six-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election
- By: Jeffrey Toobin
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Jeffrey Toobin is the ideal writer to distill the events of the 36 anxiety-filled days that culminated in one of the most stunning Supreme Court decisions in history....
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Wow......
- By Micah M. on 06-02-17
By: Jeffrey Toobin
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The Federalist Society
- How Conservatives Took the Law Back from Liberals
- By: Michael Avery, Danielle McLaughlin
- Narrated by: Douglas R. Pratt
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
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Over the last 30 years, the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies has grown from a small group of disaffected conservative law students into an organization with extraordinary influence over American law and politics....
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Terrible narrator. You can hear spit in his mouth the whole time
- By aswingerofbirches on 12-06-21
By: Michael Avery, and others
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Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas
- By: Jane Mayer, Jill Abramson
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 17 hrs
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Charged with racial, sexual, and political overtones, the confirmation of Clarence Thomas as a Supreme Court justice was one of the most divisive spectacles the country has ever seen. Two of the nation's top investigative journalists examine all aspects of this controversial case....
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Great read/listen
- By S. Gallegos on 11-24-19
By: Jane Mayer, and others
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Critical Race Theory: An Introduction, Third Edition
- Critical America, Book 20
- By: Richard Delgado, Jean Stefancic, Angela Harris - foreword
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
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Since the publication of the first edition of Critical Race Theory in 2001, the United States has lived through two economic downturns, an outbreak of terrorism, and the onset of an epidemic of hate directed against immigrants....
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An Excellent, Academic Introduction
- By Qoheleth on 06-03-20
By: Richard Delgado, and others
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The Chief
- The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts
- By: Joan Biskupic
- Narrated by: Jennywren Walker
- Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
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An incisive biography of the Supreme Court's enigmatic chief justice, taking us inside the momentous legal decisions of his tenure so far....
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Hard to concentrate on, because of author's bias
- By Adam Johanson on 06-24-19
By: Joan Biskupic
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The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics
- By: Stephen Breyer
- Narrated by: Jim Seybert
- Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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A growing chorus of officials and commentators argues that the Supreme Court has become too political. On this view, the confirmation process is just an exercise in partisan agenda-setting, and the jurists are no more than “politicians in robes”....
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Excellent overview of Suo. Ct. Purpose, position and how it actually works
- By Georgia on 09-19-21
By: Stephen Breyer
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Justice on Trial
- The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court
- By: Mollie Hemingway, Carrie Severino
- Narrated by: Mollie Hemingway, Carrie Severino
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
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Justice on Trial, the definitive insider's account of Kavanaugh's appointment to the Supreme Court, is based on extraordinary access to more than 100 key figures - including the president, justices, and senators - in that ferocious political drama....
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Politicians behaving badly!
- By Wayne on 07-13-19
By: Mollie Hemingway, and others
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The Most Dangerous Branch
- Inside the Supreme Court's Assault on the Constitution
- By: David A. Kaplan
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 16 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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With the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy, the Court has never before been more central in American life. It is the nine justices who too often now decide the controversial issues of our time—from abortion and same-sex marriage, to gun control, campaign finance and voting rights....
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Thought provoking!
- By carol utsunomiya on 02-25-19
By: David A. Kaplan
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One Vote Away
- How a Single Supreme Court Seat Can Change History
- By: Ted Cruz
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
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With Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s sudden passing, control of the Supreme Court — and with it the fate of the Constitution — has become the deciding issue for many voters in the 2020 presidential election. And the stakes could not be higher....
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Intellectual and Insightful, so smartly written it became prophetic!
- By Kevin D. on 09-29-20
By: Ted Cruz
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Nine Black Robes
- Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences
- By: Joan Biskupic
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
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CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst Joan Biskupic provides an urgent and inside look at the history-making era in the Supreme Court during the Trump and post-Trump years....
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Another 3 star effort from Biskupic
- By Richard Spitaleri Jr. on 04-16-23
By: Joan Biskupic
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The Chevron Doctrine
- Its Rise and Fall, and the Future of the Administrative State
- By: Thomas W. Merrill
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
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Since the Supreme Court's 1984 decision in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, this judicial review has been highly deferential: courts must uphold agency interpretations of unclear laws as long as these interpretations are "reasonable"....
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The Law
- By: Frédéric Bastiat
- Narrated by: Ronald Eastwood
- Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins
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"The Law" by Frédéric Bastiat is a seminal work in political philosophy and economics, offering a robust defense of individual liberty and property rights against the encroachments of government.
By: Frédéric Bastiat
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John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court
- By: R. Kent Newmyer
- Narrated by: Castle Vozz
- Length: 24 hrs and 2 mins
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John Marshall (1755 - 1835) was arguably the most important judicial figure in American history....
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Excellent judicial, intellectual history
- By Diana Black Kennedy on 03-17-18
By: R. Kent Newmyer
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The Common Law
- By: Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Narrated by: Robert Morris
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
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This is one of the true classics in world legal literature. Written by a master of law and language...
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Horrible Narration
- By Richard on 04-12-06
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Scalia Dissents
- Writings of the Supreme Court's Wittiest, Most Outspoken Justice
- By: Antonin Scalia
- Narrated by: Wyntner Woody
- Length: 10 hrs
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Brilliant. Colorful. Visionary. Tenacious. Witty. Since his appointment to the Supreme Court, Associate Justice Antonin Scalia has been described as all of these things, and for good reason....
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Interesting insight into Justice Scalia
- By Jean on 06-10-14
By: Antonin Scalia
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Uncertain Justice
- The Roberts Court and the Constitution
- By: Laurence Tribe, Joshua Matz
- Narrated by: Holter Graham
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
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Harvard Law School scholars Laurence Tribe and Joshua Matz reveal how Chief Justice John Roberts is shaking the foundation of our nation’s laws in Uncertain Justice: The Roberts Court and the Constitution....
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An unbias view of the Court
- By Jean on 07-14-14
By: Laurence Tribe, and others
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Dissent and the Supreme Court
- Its Role in the Court's History and the Nation's Constitutional Dialogue
- By: Melvin I. Urofsky
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 19 hrs and 23 mins
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From the admired judicial authority, author of Louis D. Brandeis, Melvin Urofsky’s major new book looks at the role of dissent in the Supreme Court....
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Incisive
- By Jean on 08-30-16
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Scorpions
- The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices
- By: Noah Feldman
- Narrated by: Cotter Smith
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
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Scorpions tells the story of four great justices: their relationships with FDR, with each other, and with the turbulent world of the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War....
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A MOST HONOURABLE SWANSONG
- By Dudley H. Williams on 05-27-12
By: Noah Feldman
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The U.S. Supreme Court
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Linda Greenhouse
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins
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In this Very Short Introduction, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Linda Greenhouse draws on her deep knowledge of the court's history and of its written and unwritten rules to show listeners how the Supreme Court really works....
By: Linda Greenhouse
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Justice on the Brink
- A Requiem for the Supreme Court
- By: Linda Greenhouse
- Narrated by: Beth Hicks
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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At the end of the Supreme Court’s 2019–20 term, the center was holding. The predictions that the court would move irrevocably to the far right hadn’t come to pass, as the justices released surprisingly moderate opinions....
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A Must Read, Then A Must Act.
- By Brad and Janean on 11-29-21
By: Linda Greenhouse
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Making Sense of the Constitution
- A Primer on the Supreme Court and Its Struggle to Apply Our Fundamental Law
- By: Walter M Frank
- Narrated by: Mark D. Mickelson
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
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Walter Frank tackles in a comprehensive but lively manner subjects rarely treated in one volume....
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I enjoyed it
- By Daniel on 11-09-16
By: Walter M Frank
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An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
- By: Jeremy Bentham
- Narrated by: Andrew Cullum
- Length: 17 hrs and 4 mins
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Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), the English philosopher, writer on law and political radical, was an extraordinary individual. His preserved body can still be seen seated in a case in the South Cloisters of University College, London....
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- By Amazon Customer on 12-30-20
By: Jeremy Bentham
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Unlawful Killings
- Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey
- By: Her Honour Wendy Joseph KC
- Narrated by: Her Honour Wendy Joseph KC, Rachel Bavidge, Roy McMillan
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
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As one of just a few judges licensed to try murder cases at the Old Bailey, the author has presided over many of the high-profile cases that all too often grab our attention in dramatic media headlines—for every unlawful death tells a story....
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Brilliant
- By S. on 08-05-23
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Conversations with RBG
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law
- By: Jeffrey Rosen
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim, Suzanne Toren
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Conversations with RBG is a remarkable and unique audiobook, an informal portrait of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, drawing on a series of her conversations with Jeffrey Rosen, starting in the 1990s and continuing through the Trump era....
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Astonishing.
- By jk on 01-27-20
By: Jeffrey Rosen
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The Power of Our Supreme Court
- How Supreme Court Cases Shape Democracy
- By: Matt Beat
- Narrated by: Philip Church
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Mr. Beat’s The Power of Our Supreme Court is the Supreme Court book of decisions that affect the everyday lives of Americans everywhere. The real democracy of America unveiled....
By: Matt Beat