Bestsellers
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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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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....
De: Madiba K. Dennie
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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 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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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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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 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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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....
De: Madiba K. Dennie
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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 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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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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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 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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Outstanding book
- De John Cashman en 05-19-20
De: Ilyon Woo
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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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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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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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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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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 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 Copyright Wars
- Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle
- De: Peter Baldwin
- Narrado por: Peter Johnson
- Duración: 17 h y 25 m
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Today’s copyright wars can seem unprecedented. But the copyright wars in fact stretch back three centuries....
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Comprehensive
- De Phil F. en 08-16-20
De: Peter Baldwin
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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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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 as a triumph - but was it? James T. Patterson shrewdly explores the provocative questions that still swirl around the case....
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The Fight Against Inequality
- De Marcus en 03-05-15
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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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Supreme Power
- Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court
- De: Jeff Shesol
- Narrado por: Mel Foster
- Duración: 23 h y 53 m
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Beginning in 1935, in a series of devastating decisions, the Supreme Court's conservative majority left much of Franklin Roosevelt's agenda in ruins....
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Excellent Book and Naration
- De Nostromo en 07-04-10
De: Jeff Shesol
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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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Who Owns This Sentence?
- A History of Copyrights and Wrongs
- De: David Bellos, Alexandre Montagu
- Narrado por: David Bellos
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
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Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very moment, battles are raging over copyright in the output of artificial intelligence programs.
De: David Bellos, y otros
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Law in American History
- Volume 1: From the Colonial Years Through the Civil War
- De: G. Edward White
- Narrado por: Graeme Spicer
- Duración: 26 h y 37 m
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In the first of the three volumes of his projected comprehensive narrative history of the role of law in America from the colonial years through the twentieth century....
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A delight for those with deep law interest
- De Philo en 07-25-14
De: G. Edward White
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Keeping the Faith
- God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation
- De: Brenda Wineapple
- Duración: 15 h
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Brenda Wineapple brings to life the 1925 Scopes trial and how the teaching of evolution in public schools exposed profound divisions in America about morals, freedom, censorship, religion, and the meaning of democracy that still resonate today....
De: Brenda Wineapple
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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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A Well-Regulated Militia
- The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America
- De: Saul Cornell
- Narrado por: Kevin T. Collins
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
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Americans are deeply divided over the Second Amendment. Some passionately assert that the Amendment protects an individual's right to own guns. Others, that it does no more than protect the right of states to maintain militias....
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historically rich
- De Alexus Nelson en 12-13-19
De: Saul Cornell
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Separating Church and State: A History
- Religion and American Public Life
- De: Steven K. Green
- Narrado por: Jonathan Salkoff
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
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This book traces the development of the concept of separation of church and state and the Supreme Court's application of it in the law....
De: Steven K. Green
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The Court v. The Voters
- The Troubling Story of How the Supreme Court Has Undermined Voting Rights
- De: Joshua A. Douglas
- Narrado por: Chris Baetens
- Duración: 7 h y 33 m
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In The Court v. The Voters, law professor Josh Douglas takes us behind the scenes of significant cases in voting rights—some surprising and unknown and some familiar—to investigate the historic crossroads that have changed our elections, and therefore the nation, irrevocably....
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Dred Scott's Revenge
- A Legal History of Race and Freedom in America
- De: Andrew P. Napolitano
- Narrado por: Michael Quinlan
- Duración: 7 h y 51 m
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Taking the Dred Scott case of 1857 as his shocking center, Judge Andrew P. Napolitano tells the story of how it happened and, through it, builds a damning case against American statesmen from Lincoln to Wilson, from FDR to JFK....
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The Trial of the Edmund Fitzgerald
- Eyewitness Accounts from the US Coast Guard Hearings
- De: Michael Schumacher
- Narrado por: Traber Burns
- Duración: 10 h y 24 m
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A documentary drawn from testimony at the Coast Guard’s official inquiry looks anew at one of the most storied, and mysterious, shipwrecks in American history....
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Informative, but rather dry. Sometimes technical.
- De D. Frrazier en 08-21-21
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Letters from Nuremberg
- My Father's Narrative of a Quest for Justice
- De: Christopher J. Dodd
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 13 h y 32 m
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Senator Thomas Dodd began his career in public service as a prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials....
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Not as advertised
- De James en 11-26-07
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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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The bestselling historian and journalist James Rosen provides the first comprehensive account of the brilliant and combative Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, whose philosophy and judicial opinions defined our legal era....
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A Life Well Lived
- De Tbaley en 03-09-24
De: James Rosen