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  • The Steps to the Supreme Court

    A Guided Tour of the American Legal System

    by Peter Irons ...
    A guide to the American legal system, told through the story of two actual court casesThe Steps to the Supreme Court takes a lively, narrative approach to the subject by following two real cases--one civil, one criminal--as they work their way through the system all the way up to the Supreme Court. Written by a member of the Supreme Court bar, this book brings the legal system to life in a ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A People's History of the Supreme Court

    The Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions Have Shaped Our Constitution: Revised Edition

    by Peter Irons ...
    A comprehensive history of the people and cases that have changed history, this is the definitive account of the nation's highest court featuring a forward by Howard ZinnRecent changes in the Supreme Court have placed the venerable institution at the forefront of current affairs, making this comprehensive and engaging work as timely as ever. In the tradition of Howard Zinn's classic A People's ... Read more

    Was $13.99 USD Now $1.99 USD

  • White Men's Law

    The Roots of Systemic Racism

    by Peter Irons ...
    A searing--and sobering--account of the legal and extra-legal means by which systemic white racism has kept Black Americans 'in their place' from slavery to police and vigilante killings of Black men and women, from 1619 to the present. From the arrival of the first English settlers in America until now-a span of four centuries-a minority of white men have created, managed, and perpetuated their ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • God on Trial

    Landmark Cases from America's Religious Battlefields

    by Peter Irons ...
    An insightful and dramatic account of religious conflicts that keep America divided, from the acclaimed author of A People's History of the Supreme CourtAs the United States has become increasingly conservative, both politically and socially, in recent years, the fight between the religious right and those advocating for the separation of church and state has only intensified. As he did in A ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Jim Crow's Children

    The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision

    by Peter Irons ...
    Peter Irons, acclaimed historian and author of A People History of the Supreme Court, explores of one of the supreme court's most important decisions and its disappointing aftermathIn 1954 the U.S. Supreme Court sounded the death knell for school segregation with its decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. So goes the conventional wisdom. Weaving together vivid portraits of lawyers and ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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    White Men’s Law

    The Roots of Systemic Racism

    by Peter Irons ...
    Narrated by Lamarr Gulley ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 19 min

    A searing—and sobering—account of the legal and extra-legal means by which systemic white racism has kept Black Americans ‘in their place’ from slavery to police and vigilante killings of Black men and women, from 1619 to the present.From the arrival of the first English settlers in America until now—a span of four centuries—a minority of white men have created, managed, and perpetuated their ... Read more

    $22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    A People's History of the Supreme Court

    The Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions Have Shaped Our Constitution

    by Peter Irons ...
    Narrated by David Drummond ...

    Unabridged

    28 hours 32 min

    A comprehensive history of the people and cases that have changed history, this is the definitive account of the nation's highest courtRecent changes in the Supreme Court have placed the venerable institution at the forefront of current affairs, making this comprehensive and engaging work as timely as ever. In the tradition of Howard Zinn's classic A People's History of the United States, Peter ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Courage of Their Convictions

    by Peter H. Irons ...
    The Courage of their Convictions cites sixteen landmark civil liberties cases and the individuals who challenged laws that they felt impinged upon their personal freedom and who took their battles to the nation’s highest court of law.“Thank goodness for the sixteen brave men and women who fought official intolerance all the way to the US Supreme Court. And thanks to the Peter Irons for presenting ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The New Deal Lawyers

    by Peter H. Irons ...
    From the perspective of young lawyers in three key New Deal agencies, this book traces the path of crucial constitutional test cases during the years from 1933 to 1937. ... Read more

    $56.89 USD

  • How I Became an Englishman

    by John Peter, Judith Burnley ...
    Peter Janos had recently turned eighteen when he heard rumours that a demonstration was going to take place that day in Budapest. He and his classmates in the sixth form of his prestigious school were instructed not to attend, which naturally made them all the more eager to do so. They could not have known that this ‘demonstration’ would turn into a major uprising which was to change forever the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Mutie Nation [Dramatized Adaptation]

    Deathlands 153

    by James Axler ...
    Narrated by Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Alejandro Ruiz, Terence Aselford, Lolita Horne, Colleen Delany, Peter Holdway, Juilienne Irons, Rob McFadyen, Eric Messner, Morgan Dalla Betta, Dawn Ursula ...
    Series series Deathlands

    Unabridged

    5 hours 40 min

    The expansion of organized muties from M-ville has reached fever pitch.Humanity is on the verge of being eradicated across the Eastern seaboard of the Deathlands. But Ryan Cawdor and his band of survivalists harbor a desperate plan to stop the muties--one that will put their lives at risk.The stakes are genocide, and the prize is the human race... or its extinction.Produced with a full cast of ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How I Became an Englishman

    by John Peter, Judith Burnley ...
    Peter Janos had recently turned eighteen when he heard rumours that a demonstration was going to take place that day in Budapest. He and his classmates in the sixth form of his prestigious school were instructed not to attend, which naturally made them all the more eager to do so. They could not have known that this 'demonstration' would turn into a major uprising which was to change forever the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus