Bestsellers
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Keeping the Faith
- God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation
- De: Brenda Wineapple
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 12 h y 50 m
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The dramatic story of the 1925 Scopes trial, which captivated the nation and exposed profound divisions in America that still resonate today—divisions over the meaning of freedom, religion, education, censorship, and civil liberties in a democracy.
De: Brenda Wineapple
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The Innocent Man
- Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
- De: John Grisham
- Narrado por: Craig Wasson
- Duración: 12 h y 28 m
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John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction: a true crime story that will terrify anyone who believes in the presumption of innocence....
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Wake up people...
- De Michael H. Wagner en 10-14-09
De: John Grisham
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Enemies
- A History of the FBI
- De: Tim Weiner
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 18 h y 32 m
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Enemies is the first definitive history of the FBI’s secret intelligence operations....
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Good book, just not for me
- De a en 11-12-12
De: Tim Weiner
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Devil in the Grove
- Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
- De: Gilbert King
- Narrado por: Peter Francis James
- Duración: 17 h y 53 m
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Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. The story of Thurgood Marshall's defense - depsite death threats and KKK intimidation - of four Black youths falsely accused of rape....
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the fight for civil rights
- De Jean en 01-17-14
De: Gilbert King
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The Sewing Girl's Tale
- A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America
- De: John Wood Sweet
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
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On a moonless night in the summer of 1793 a crime was committed in the back room of a New York brothel—the kind of crime that even victims usually kept secret. Instead, seventeen-year-old seamstress Lanah Sawyer did what virtually no one in US history had done before....
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Great for history buffs!
- De LibertyHillbilly en 02-09-23
De: John Wood Sweet
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A Storm of Witchcraft
- The Salem Trials and the American Experience
- De: Emerson W. Baker
- Narrado por: Marc Vietor
- Duración: 12 h y 30 m
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Beginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America....
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Wow....riveting and tragic
- De TeamDowager en 10-23-15
De: Emerson W. Baker
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Keeping the Faith
- God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation
- De: Brenda Wineapple
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 12 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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The dramatic story of the 1925 Scopes trial, which captivated the nation and exposed profound divisions in America that still resonate today—divisions over the meaning of freedom, religion, education, censorship, and civil liberties in a democracy.
De: Brenda Wineapple
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The Innocent Man
- Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
- De: John Grisham
- Narrado por: Craig Wasson
- Duración: 12 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction: a true crime story that will terrify anyone who believes in the presumption of innocence....
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Wake up people...
- De Michael H. Wagner en 10-14-09
De: John Grisham
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Enemies
- A History of the FBI
- De: Tim Weiner
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 18 h y 32 m
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Enemies is the first definitive history of the FBI’s secret intelligence operations....
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Good book, just not for me
- De a en 11-12-12
De: Tim Weiner
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Devil in the Grove
- Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
- De: Gilbert King
- Narrado por: Peter Francis James
- Duración: 17 h y 53 m
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Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. The story of Thurgood Marshall's defense - depsite death threats and KKK intimidation - of four Black youths falsely accused of rape....
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the fight for civil rights
- De Jean en 01-17-14
De: Gilbert King
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The Sewing Girl's Tale
- A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America
- De: John Wood Sweet
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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On a moonless night in the summer of 1793 a crime was committed in the back room of a New York brothel—the kind of crime that even victims usually kept secret. Instead, seventeen-year-old seamstress Lanah Sawyer did what virtually no one in US history had done before....
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Great for history buffs!
- De LibertyHillbilly en 02-09-23
De: John Wood Sweet
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A Storm of Witchcraft
- The Salem Trials and the American Experience
- De: Emerson W. Baker
- Narrado por: Marc Vietor
- Duración: 12 h y 30 m
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Beginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America....
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Wow....riveting and tragic
- De TeamDowager en 10-23-15
De: Emerson W. Baker
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The Run of His Life
- The People v. O.J. Simpson
- De: Jeffrey Toobin
- Narrado por: Stephen Bel Davies
- Duración: 18 h y 46 m
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The definitive account of the O. J. Simpson trial, The Run of His Life is a prodigious feat of reporting....
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Fear and Loathing in Los Angeles
- De Cynthia en 05-24-16
De: Jeffrey Toobin
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John Marshall
- The Man Who Made the Supreme Court
- De: Richard Brookhiser
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 9 h y 31 m
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The life of John Marshall, founding father and America's premier chief justice....
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Excellent Biography
- De Jean en 12-14-18
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American Heiress
- The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
- De: Jeffrey Toobin
- Narrado por: Paul Michael
- Duración: 15 h y 25 m
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On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, a sophomore in college and heiress to the Hearst family fortune, was kidnapped by a ragtag group of self-styled revolutionaries calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army....
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Privilege calling privilege privileged
- De Kelley en 08-05-16
De: Jeffrey Toobin
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Lincoln's Last Trial: The Murder Case That Propelled Him to the Presidency
- De: Dan Abrams, David Fisher
- Narrado por: Adam Verner, Dan Abrams
- Duración: 9 h y 40 m
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At the end of the summer of 1859, 22-year-old Peachy Quinn Harrison went on trial for murder in Springfield, Illinois. Abraham Lincoln was hired to defend him....
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Great Courtroom Drama
- De Jean en 04-26-19
De: Dan Abrams, y otros
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The Words That Made Us
- America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840
- De: Akhil Reed Amar
- Narrado por: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Duración: 27 h y 6 m
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In The Words That Made Us, Akhil Reed Amar unites history and law in a vivid narrative of the biggest constitutional questions early Americans confronted, and he expertly assesses the answers they offered....
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And the words that made Us
- De Anonymous User en 10-17-22
De: Akhil Reed Amar
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The Great Divorce
- A Nineteenth-Century Mother's Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times
- De: Ilyon Woo
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 10 h y 49 m
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In 1814, Eunice Chapman came home to discover that her three children had been carried off by her estranged husband. He had taken them, she learned, to live among the Shakers....
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A classic
- De My Profile Name en 06-21-21
De: Ilyon Woo
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Without Precedent
- Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times
- De: Joel Richard Paul
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 17 h y 11 m
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The remarkable story of John Marshall who, as chief justice, statesman, and diplomat, played a pivotal role in the founding of the United States....
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Scholarly and Accessible
- De Diana Black Kennedy en 03-01-18
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First
- Sandra Day O'Connor
- De: Evan Thomas
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 16 h y 33 m
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The intimate, inspiring, and authoritative biography of Sandra Day O’Connor, America’s first female Supreme Court justice, drawing on exclusive interviews and first-time access to Justice O’Connor’s archives....
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Remarkable woman, well served in this book.
- De KathrynVB en 04-05-19
De: Evan Thomas
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White Shoe
- How a New Breed of Wall Street Lawyers Changed Big Business and the American Century
- De: John Oller
- Narrado por: Stephen Graybill
- Duración: 12 h y 58 m
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The fascinating true story of how a group of visionary attorneys helped make American business synonymous with big business and Wall Street the center of the financial world....
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Adds sharp, telling detail to big biz-law tales
- De Philo en 03-21-19
De: John Oller
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The Constitution of the United States, Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence and Founding Father Biographies
- George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin and More
- De: CSA Publishing, Founding Fathers
- Narrado por: Roberto Scarlato
- Duración: 3 h y 39 m
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How much do you know about the Constitution of the United States or even about those brave men who are considered Founding Fathers? Sure, you may have been forced to read the Declaration of Independence in elementary school but do you even remember its intent? Listen to find out more….
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A Complete American Collection
- De Jackie Harwood en 08-14-22
De: CSA Publishing, y otros
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The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics
- De: Stephen Breyer
- Narrado por: Jim Seybert
- Duración: 1 h y 52 m
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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
- De Georgia en 09-19-21
De: Stephen Breyer
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The Day Freedom Died
- The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction
- De: Charles Lane
- Narrado por: Jim Bond
- Duración: 12 h y 34 m
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America after the Civil War was a land of shattered promises and entrenched hatreds....
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A Story That Had to Be Told
- De pablo en 07-07-17
De: Charles Lane
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The Originalism Trap
- How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back
- De: Madiba K. Dennie
- Narrado por: Madiba K. Dennie
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
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A rallying cry for a more just approach to the law that bolsters social justice movements by throwing out originalism—the theory that judges should interpret the Constitution exactly as conservatives say the Founders meant it....
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A searing criticism of originalism, and an uplifting introduction to the idea of inclusive constitutionalism
- De Nicholas Bishop en 06-27-24
De: Madiba K. Dennie
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Law of the Jungle
- The $19 Billion Legal Battle Over Oil in the Rain Forest and the Lawyer Who'd Stop at Nothing to Win
- De: Paul M. Barrett
- Narrado por: Joe Ochman
- Duración: 8 h y 58 m
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The gripping story of one American lawyer's obsessive crusade - waged at any cost - against Big Oil on behalf of the poor farmers and indigenous tribes of the Amazon rainforest....
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An OK account of an epic legal battle
- De Adventure Boy en 10-21-14
De: Paul M. Barrett
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Jim Crow's Pink Slip
- The Untold Story of Black Principal and Teacher Leadership
- De: Leslie T. Fenwick
- Narrado por: Deanna Anthony
- Duración: 7 h y 10 m
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In 1954, the Supreme Court's Brown decision ended segregated schooling in the United States, but regrettably, as documented in congressional testimony and transcripts, it also ended the careers of a generation of highly qualified and credentialed Black teachers and principals....
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JCPS
- De Charles J. Jones en 02-25-24
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Summer for the Gods
- The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion
- De: Edward J. Larson
- Narrado por: Brian Troxell
- Duración: 10 h y 47 m
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In the summer of 1925, the sleepy hamlet of Dayton, Tennessee, became the setting for one of the 20th century's most contentious dramas: the Scopes trial....
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A little biased toward evolution
- De Medina Family en 02-19-20
De: Edward J. Larson
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The People's Justice
- Clarence Thomas and the Constitutional Stories That Define Him
- De: Amul Thapar
- Narrado por: Charles Constant
- Duración: 6 h y 48 m
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No Supreme Court justice has come from humbler circumstances than Clarence Thomas, yet critics denounce him as the "cruelest justice," a heartless traitor to his race who cynically sacrifices justice to ideology. In this provocative new book, Judge Amul Thapar demolishes that caricature....
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Compelling story of Justice Thomas’s Originalism and why it provides a sure foundation for American jurisprudence.
- De Samuel Greenwell en 12-30-23
De: Amul Thapar
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Sisters in Law
- How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World
- De: Linda Hirshman
- Narrado por: Andrea Gallo
- Duración: 13 h y 28 m
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The author of the celebrated Victory tells the fascinating story of the intertwined lives of Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg....
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Insightful and thought-provoking
- De Jean en 09-08-15
De: Linda Hirshman
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We the Corporations
- How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
- De: Adam Winkler
- Narrado por: William Hughes
- Duración: 14 h y 31 m
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In this groundbreaking portrait of corporate seizure of political power, We the Corporations reveals how American businesses transformed the Constitution to serve the ends of capital....
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Many books in one, supporting vast insight
- De Philo en 04-03-18
De: Adam Winkler
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Gideon's Trumpet
- How One Man, a Poor Prisoner, Took His Case to the Supreme Court - and Changed the Law of the United States
- De: Anthony Lewis
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 7 h y 50 m
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A history of the landmark case of Clarence Earl Gideon's fight for the right to legal counsel....
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best book on the subject
- De J.B. Price en 06-12-18
De: Anthony Lewis
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Gunfight
- The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America
- De: Adam Winkler
- Narrado por: John McLain
- Duración: 12 h y 53 m
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Winkler brilliantly weaves together the dramatic stories of gun rights advocates and gun control lobbyists, providing often unexpected insights into the venomous debate that now cleaves our nation....
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Excellent, well researched and thought provoking.
- De wesley felice en 04-02-18
De: Adam Winkler
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America's Rifle
- The Case for the AR-15
- De: Stephen Halbrook
- Narrado por: Richard Cefalos
- Duración: 11 h y 23 m
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This book is the definitive work showing the central place of AR-15s and other semiautomatic rifles in the American story. From the founding to the present, rifles and other firearms have played a pivotal role in American history.
De: Stephen Halbrook
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Demand the Impossible
- One Lawyer's Pursuit of Equal Justice for All
- De: Robert Tsai
- Narrado por: Kaipo Schwab
- Duración: 6 h y 54 m
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In Demand the Impossible, Robert L. Tsai traces lawyer Stephen Bright's remarkable career to explore the legal ideas that were central to his relentless pursuit of equal justice.
De: Robert Tsai
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This House of Grief
- The Story of a Murder Trial
- De: Helen Garner
- Narrado por: Kate Hood
- Duración: 8 h y 58 m
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Anyone can see the place where the children died. You take the Princes Highway past Geelong, and keep going west in the direction of Colac....
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Riveting
- De MLM SoCal en 11-05-23
De: Helen Garner
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Keeping the Faith
- God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation
- De: Brenda Wineapple
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 12 h y 50 m
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The dramatic story of the 1925 Scopes trial, which captivated the nation and exposed profound divisions in America that still resonate today—divisions over the meaning of freedom, religion, education, censorship, and civil liberties in a democracy.
De: Brenda Wineapple
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Rot and Revival
- The History of Constitutional Law in American Political Development
- De: Anthony Michael Kreis
- Narrado por: Peter Lerman
- Duración: 7 h y 48 m
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Rot and Revival is one of the first scholarly works to comprehensively theorize and document how politics make American constitutional law and how the courts affect the path of partisan politics. Rejecting the idea that the Constitution's significance and interpretation can be divorced from contemporary political realities, Anthony Michael Kreis explains how American constitutional law reflects the ideological commitments of dominant political coalitions, the consequences of major public policy choices, and the influences of intervening social movements.
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Major Supreme Court Decisions in American History
- De OpenTheBooks&Listen en 08-13-24
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Separate
- The Story of Plessy V. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation
- De: Steve Luxenberg
- Narrado por: Donald Corren
- Duración: 19 h y 39 m
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Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court case synonymous with "separate but equal", created remarkably little stir when the justices announced their near-unanimous decision on May 18, 1896. Yet it is one of the most compelling and dramatic stories of the 19th century, whose outcome embraced and protected segregation, and whose reverberations are still felt into the 21st. Separate spans a striking range of characters and landscapes, bound together by the defining issue of their time and ours - race and equality.
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Black and White in shades of grey
- De JKC en 03-15-19
De: Steve Luxenberg
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Making Our Democracy Work
- A Judge’s View
- De: Justice Stephen Breyer
- Narrado por: Luis Moreno
- Duración: 10 h y 17 m
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Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer delivers an impassioned argument for the proper role of America’s highest judicial body. Examining historic and contemporary decisions by the Court, Breyer highlights the rulings that have bolstered public confidence as well as the missteps that have triggered distrust. What emerges is a unique approach - certain to be admired for years to come - to interpreting the Constitution.
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Timely
- De Don en 05-17-17
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He Calls Me by Lightning
- The Life of Caliph Washington and the Forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice, and the Death Penalty
- De: S. Jonathan Bass
- Narrado por: Mirron Willis
- Duración: 13 h y 40 m
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Caliph Washington's life was never supposed to matter. As a Black teenager from the vice-ridden city of Bessemer, Alabama, Washington was wrongfully convicted of killing an Alabama policeman in 1957. Sentenced to death, he came within minutes of the electric chair - nearly a dozen times. A Kafka-esque legal odyssey in which Washington's original conviction was overturned three times before he was finally released in 1972, his story is the kind that pervades the history of American justice.
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Knowledgable loved it
- De Janet Handy en 10-14-18
De: S. Jonathan Bass
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Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso
- A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America
- De: Kali Nicole Gross
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards
- Duración: 5 h y 20 m
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Shortly after a dismembered torso was discovered by a pond outside Philadelphia in 1887, investigators homed in on two suspects: Hannah Mary Tabbs, a married, working-class Black woman, and George Wilson, a former neighbor whom Tabbs implicated after her arrest. As details surrounding the shocking case emerged, both the crime and ensuing trial - which spanned several months - were featured in the national press. The trial brought otherwise taboo subjects such as illicit sex, adultery, and domestic violence in the Black community to public attention.
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Keeping the Faith
- God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation
- De: Brenda Wineapple
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 12 h y 50 m
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The dramatic story of the 1925 Scopes trial, which captivated the nation and exposed profound divisions in America that still resonate today—divisions over the meaning of freedom, religion, education, censorship, and civil liberties in a democracy.
De: Brenda Wineapple
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Rot and Revival
- The History of Constitutional Law in American Political Development
- De: Anthony Michael Kreis
- Narrado por: Peter Lerman
- Duración: 7 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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Rot and Revival is one of the first scholarly works to comprehensively theorize and document how politics make American constitutional law and how the courts affect the path of partisan politics. Rejecting the idea that the Constitution's significance and interpretation can be divorced from contemporary political realities, Anthony Michael Kreis explains how American constitutional law reflects the ideological commitments of dominant political coalitions, the consequences of major public policy choices, and the influences of intervening social movements.
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Major Supreme Court Decisions in American History
- De OpenTheBooks&Listen en 08-13-24
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Separate
- The Story of Plessy V. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation
- De: Steve Luxenberg
- Narrado por: Donald Corren
- Duración: 19 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court case synonymous with "separate but equal", created remarkably little stir when the justices announced their near-unanimous decision on May 18, 1896. Yet it is one of the most compelling and dramatic stories of the 19th century, whose outcome embraced and protected segregation, and whose reverberations are still felt into the 21st. Separate spans a striking range of characters and landscapes, bound together by the defining issue of their time and ours - race and equality.
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Black and White in shades of grey
- De JKC en 03-15-19
De: Steve Luxenberg
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Making Our Democracy Work
- A Judge’s View
- De: Justice Stephen Breyer
- Narrado por: Luis Moreno
- Duración: 10 h y 17 m
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Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer delivers an impassioned argument for the proper role of America’s highest judicial body. Examining historic and contemporary decisions by the Court, Breyer highlights the rulings that have bolstered public confidence as well as the missteps that have triggered distrust. What emerges is a unique approach - certain to be admired for years to come - to interpreting the Constitution.
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Timely
- De Don en 05-17-17
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He Calls Me by Lightning
- The Life of Caliph Washington and the Forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice, and the Death Penalty
- De: S. Jonathan Bass
- Narrado por: Mirron Willis
- Duración: 13 h y 40 m
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Caliph Washington's life was never supposed to matter. As a Black teenager from the vice-ridden city of Bessemer, Alabama, Washington was wrongfully convicted of killing an Alabama policeman in 1957. Sentenced to death, he came within minutes of the electric chair - nearly a dozen times. A Kafka-esque legal odyssey in which Washington's original conviction was overturned three times before he was finally released in 1972, his story is the kind that pervades the history of American justice.
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Knowledgable loved it
- De Janet Handy en 10-14-18
De: S. Jonathan Bass
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Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso
- A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America
- De: Kali Nicole Gross
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards
- Duración: 5 h y 20 m
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Shortly after a dismembered torso was discovered by a pond outside Philadelphia in 1887, investigators homed in on two suspects: Hannah Mary Tabbs, a married, working-class Black woman, and George Wilson, a former neighbor whom Tabbs implicated after her arrest. As details surrounding the shocking case emerged, both the crime and ensuing trial - which spanned several months - were featured in the national press. The trial brought otherwise taboo subjects such as illicit sex, adultery, and domestic violence in the Black community to public attention.
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Judgment Before Nuremberg
- The Holocaust in the Ukraine and the First Nazi War Crimes Trial
- De: Greg Dawson
- Narrado por: Gary Dikeos
- Duración: 8 h y 3 m
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When people think of the Holocaust, they think of Auschwitz, of Dachau; and when they think of justice for this terrible chapter in history, they think of Nuremberg. Not of Russia or the Ukraine, and certainly not a town called Kharkov. But in reality, the first war-crimes trial against the Nazis was in this idyllic, peaceful Ukrainian city, which is fitting, because it is also where the Holocaust actually began.
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Don’t Insult Your Audience
- De Michael Richards en 01-21-22
De: Greg Dawson
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Making Sense of the Constitution
- A Primer on the Supreme Court and Its Struggle to Apply Our Fundamental Law
- De: Walter M Frank
- Narrado por: Mark D. Mickelson
- Duración: 10 h y 38 m
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Walter Frank tackles, in a comprehensive but lively manner, subjects rarely treated in one volume. Aiming at both the general listener and students of political science, law, or history, Frank begins with a brief discussion of the nature of constitutional law and why the Court divides so closely on many issues. He then proceeds to an analysis of the Constitution and subsequent amendments, placing them in their historical context.
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I enjoyed it
- De Daniel en 11-09-16
De: Walter M Frank
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Presidential Elections and Majority Rule
- The Rise, Demise, and Potential Restoration of the Jeffersonian Electoral College
- De: Edward B. Foley
- Narrado por: Rick Adamson
- Duración: 7 h y 28 m
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The Electoral College that governs America has been with us since 1804, when Thomas Jefferson's supporters redesigned it for his re-election. The Jeffersonians were motivated by the principle of majority rule. Gone were the days when a president would be elected by acclamation, as George Washington had been. Instead, given the emergence of intense two-party competition, the Jeffersonians wanted to make sure that the Electoral College awarded the presidency to the candidate of the majority, rather than minority, party.
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Premise is faulty but research is good
- De Grant en 06-03-20
De: Edward B. Foley
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Supreme Power
- 7 Pivotal Supreme Court Decisions That Had a Major Impact on America
- De: Ted Stewart
- Narrado por: Art Allen
- Duración: 7 h y 40 m
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Best-selling author Ted Stewart explains how the Supreme Court and its nine appointed members now stand at a crucial point in their power to hand down momentous and far-ranging decisions. Today's Court affects every major area of American life, from health care to civil rights, from abortion to marriage. This fascinating book reveals the complex history of the Court as told through seven pivotal decisions.
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Polemical, downright ridiculous at times
- De Joe Igla en 11-04-17
De: Ted Stewart
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A Triumph of Genius
- Edwin Land, Polaroid, and the Kodak Patent War
- De: Ronald K. Fierstein
- Narrado por: Pete Larkin
- Duración: 24 h y 15 m
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This riveting biography from the American Bar Association visits the spectacular life of Edwin Land, breakthrough inventor. At the time of his death, he stood third on the list of our most prolific inventors, behind only Thomas Edison and one of Edison's colleagues. Land's most famous achievement was the creation of a revolutionary film-and-camera system that could produce a photographic print moments after the picture was taken.
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Fascinating
- De Jean en 03-27-15
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Imbeciles
- The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck
- De: Adam Cohen
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 13 h y 19 m
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Imbeciles is the shocking story of Buck v. Bell, a legal case that challenges our faith in American justice. A gripping courtroom drama, it pits a helpless young woman against powerful scientists, lawyers, and judges who believed that eugenic measures were necessary to save the nation from being “swamped with incompetence.”
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Compelling Concept, Aggravating Execution
- De Gillian en 04-05-16
De: Adam Cohen
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The Majesty of the Law
- Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice
- De: Sandra Day O'Connor
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 9 h y 30 m
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In this remarkable book, Sandra Day O’Connor explores the law, her life as a Supreme Court Justice, and how the Court has evolved and continues to function, grow, and change as an American institution. Tracing some of the origins of American law through history, people, ideas, and landmark cases, O’Connor sheds new light on the basics, exploring through personal observation the evolution of the Court and American democratic traditions.
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Informative and well-written
- De James en 07-11-05
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Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy
- Oxford University Press: Pivotal Moments in US History
- De: James T. Patterson
- Narrado por: Steve Anderson
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
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Most Americans still see Brown v. Board of Education as a triumph - but was it? James T. Patterson shrewdly explores the provocative questions that still swirl around the case. A wide range of characters animates the story, from the little-known African-Americans who dared to challenge Jim Crow with lawsuits; to Thurgood Marshall, who later became a Justice himself; to Earl Warren, who shepherded a fractured Court to a unanimous decision.
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The Fight Against Inequality
- De Marcus en 03-05-15
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American Islamophobia
- Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear
- De: Khaled A. Beydoun
- Narrado por: Neil Shah
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Using his unique lens as a critical race theorist and law professor, Khaled A. Beydoun captures the many ways in which law, policy, and official state rhetoric have fueled the frightening resurgence of Islamophobia in the US.
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Without stereotypes
- De DCMom en 03-06-24
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The Supreme Court
- The Personalities and Rivalries That Defined America
- De: Jeffrey Rosen
- Narrado por: Alan Sklar
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
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A leading Supreme Court expert recounts the personal and philosophical rivalries that forged our nation's highest court and continue to shape our daily lives. The Supreme Court is the most mysterious branch of government, and yet the Court is at root a human institution, made up of very bright people with very strong egos, for whom political and judicial conflicts often become personal.
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Overruled!
- De Stephen McLeod en 08-23-08
De: Jeffrey Rosen
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War of the Whales
- A True Story
- De: Joshua Horwitz
- Narrado por: Holter Graham
- Duración: 13 h y 38 m
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War of the Whales is the gripping tale of a crusading attorney who stumbles on one of the US Navy’s best-kept secrets: a submarine detection system that floods entire ocean basins with high-intensity sound - and drives whales onto beaches. As Joel Reynolds launches a legal fight to expose and challenge the Navy program, marine biologist Ken Balcomb witnesses a mysterious mass stranding of whales near his research station in the Bahamas.
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Legal Drama - better than fiction
- De W. P. Brown en 08-23-14
De: Joshua Horwitz
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Though the Heavens May Fall
- The Landmark Trial That Led to the End of Human Slavery
- De: Steven M. Wise
- Narrado por: Andrew Shapiro
- Duración: 8 h y 1 m
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For the first time, the complete, exciting story of the landmark trial that led to the abolition of slavery in the Western world. The 1772 London trial of James Somerset, rescued from a ship bound for the West Indies slave markets, was a decisive turning point in history. As in the Scopes trial, two encompassing world views clashed in an event of passionate drama.
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Heaven had too much detail
- De Jan Foster en 02-09-10
De: Steven M. Wise
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American Legal History
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: G. Edward White
- Narrado por: Jason Huggins
- Duración: 4 h y 33 m
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Law has played a central role in American history. From colonial times to the present, law has not just reflected the changing society in which legal decisions have been made - it has played a powerful role in shaping that society, though not always in positive ways. Eminent legal scholar G. Edward White offers a compact overview that sheds light on the impact of law on a number of key social issues.
De: G. Edward White
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Scalia
- Rise to Greatness: 1936-1986
- De: James Rosen
- Narrado por: John McLain
- Duración: 13 h y 32 m
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With SCALIA: Rise to Greatness, 1936-1986, the opening installment in a two-volume biography, acclaimed reporter and bestselling historian James Rosen provides the first comprehensive account of the life of Justice Antonin Scalia, whose singular career in government—including three decades on the Supreme Court—shaped American law and society in the twenty-first century.
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A Life Well Lived
- De Tbaley en 03-09-24
De: James Rosen
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Fifteen Judgments
- Cases That Shaped India's Financial Landscape
- De: Saurabh Kirpal
- Narrado por: Adwait Karambelkar
- Duración: 8 h y 26 m
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This book examines fifteen judgments that have influenced the financial destiny of India. With significant macroeconomic dimensions, these judgments, when explored, show a long-term impact on the economy.
De: Saurabh Kirpal
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Grands procès [Great Trials]
- 38 affaires judiciaires qui ont secoué le Québec: de 1965 à aujourd'hui [38 Court Cases That Shook Quebec: From 1965 to Today]
- De: Daniel Proulx
- Narrado por: Winston McQuade
- Duración: 12 h y 21 m
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Les 38 causes notoires racontées dans ce livre avec talent par le journaliste Daniel Proulx nous instruisent sur notre pensée et notre morale. Elles forcent la réflexion sur l’état de notre société et de notre justice, ce pilier de notre démocratie.
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The Witness House
- Nazis and Holocaust Survivors Sharing a Villa during the Nuremberg Trials
- De: Christiane Kohl
- Narrado por: Kathleen Godwin
- Duración: 7 h y 3 m
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Autumn 1945 saw the start of the Nuremberg trials, in which high ranking representatives of the Nazi government were called to account for their war crimes. In a curious yet fascinating twist, witnesses for the prosecution and the defense were housed together in a villa on the outskirts of town. The Witness House reveals the social structures that allowed a cruel and unjust regime to flourish and serves as a symbol of the blurred boundaries between accuser and accused that would come to form the basis of postwar Germany.
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yawn
- De Kelly O en 04-19-19
De: Christiane Kohl
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The Words That Made Us
- America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840
- De: Akhil Reed Amar
- Narrado por: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Duración: 27 h y 6 m
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In The Words That Made Us, Akhil Reed Amar unites history and law in a vivid narrative of the biggest constitutional questions early Americans confronted, and he expertly assesses the answers they offered. His account of the document's origins and consolidation is a guide for anyone seeking to properly understand America's Constitution today.
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And the words that made Us
- De Anonymous User en 10-17-22
De: Akhil Reed Amar
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A Storm of Witchcraft
- The Salem Trials and the American Experience
- De: Emerson W. Baker
- Narrado por: Marc Vietor
- Duración: 12 h y 30 m
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Beginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America. Villagers - mainly young women - suffered from unseen torments that caused them to writhe, shriek, and contort their bodies, complaining of pins stuck into their flesh and of being haunted by specters. Believing that they suffered from assaults by an invisible spirit, the community began a hunt to track down those responsible for the demonic work.
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Wow....riveting and tragic
- De TeamDowager en 10-23-15
De: Emerson W. Baker
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Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe
- Complicity and Conscience in America's World War II Concentration Camps
- De: Eric L. Muller
- Narrado por: Frank Clem
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
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It is 1942, and World War II is raging. In the months since Pearl Harbor, the US has plunged into the war overseas—and on the home front, it has locked up tens of thousands of innocent Japanese Americans in concentration camps, tearing them from their homes on the West Coast with the ostensible goal of neutralizing a supposed internal threat. At each of these camps the government places a white lawyer with contradictory instructions: provide legal counsel to the prisoners, and keep the place running.
De: Eric L. Muller
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Crimes That Changed Our World
- Tragedy, Outrage, and Reform
- De: Paul H. Robinson, Sarah M. Robinson
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
- Duración: 15 h y 59 m
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Crimes That Changed Our World explores some of the most important trigger cases of the past century, revealing much about how change comes to our modern world. The exact nature of the crime-outrage-reform dynamic can take many forms, and Paul and Sarah Robinson explore those differences in the cases they present. Each case is in some ways unique but there are repeating patterns that can offer important insights about what produces change and how in the future we might best manage it.
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Good story, Bad reader.
- De Tina G. en 09-19-18
De: Paul H. Robinson, y otros
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Gunfight
- The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America
- De: Adam Winkler
- Narrado por: John McLain
- Duración: 12 h y 53 m
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A provocative history that reveals how guns - not abortion, race, or religion - are at the heart of America's cultural divide. Gunfight promises to be a seminal work in its examination of America's four-centuries-long political battle over gun control and the right to bear arms. Adam Winkler uses the landmark 2008 case District of Columbia v. Heller, which invalidated a law banning handguns in the nation's capital, as a springboard for a groundbreaking historical narrative.
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Excellent, well researched and thought provoking.
- De wesley felice en 04-02-18
De: Adam Winkler
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Water Tossing Boulders
- How a Family of Chinese Immigrants Led the First Fight to Desegregate Schools in the Jim Crow South
- De: Adrienne Berard
- Narrado por: Moe Egan
- Duración: 6 h y 4 m
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On September 15, 1924, Martha Lum and her older sister Berda were barred from attending middle school in Rosedale, Mississippi. The girls were Chinese American and considered by the school to be “colored”; the school was for whites. This event would lead to the first US Supreme Court case to challenge the constitutionality of racial segregation in Southern public schools, an astonishing thirty years before the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision.Brown v. Board of Education decision.
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Over a third of the book was just about the lawyer
- De Crysta M en 05-05-21
De: Adrienne Berard
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The Lynching
- The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan
- De: Laurence Leamer
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 10 h y 19 m
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On a Friday night in March 1981, Henry Hays and James Knowles scoured the streets of Mobile in their car, hunting for a black man. The young men were members of Klavern 900 of the United Klans of America. They were seeking to retaliate after a largely black jury could not reach a verdict in a trial involving a black man accused of the murder of a white man. The two Klansmen found 19-year-old Michael Donald walking home alone.
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Very Readable
- De Jean en 06-10-16
De: Laurence Leamer