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“roberta walburn”

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  • Miles Lord

    The Maverick Judge Who Brought Corporate America to Justice

    by Roberta Walburn ...
    The life of a crusading federal judge who stood up and fought for “the little guy”This is the story of Miles Lord (1919–2016), who rose from humble beginnings on Minnesota’s Iron Range to become one of the most colorful and powerful judges in the country, described as “an unabashed Prairie populist” and “a live-wire slayer of corporate behemoths.” He cut a wide swath through history on his path to ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • Louis D. Brandeis

    A Life

    by Melvin I. Urofsky ...
    The first full-scale biography in twenty-five years of one of the most important and distinguished justices to sit on the Supreme Court–a book that reveals Louis D. Brandeis the reformer, lawyer, and jurist, and Brandeis the man, in all of his complexity, passion, and wit.A huge and galvanizing biography, a revelation of one man’s effect on American society and jurisprudence, and the electrifying ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Majesty of the Law

    Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice

    by Sandra Day O'Connor ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Shows us why Sandra Day O’Connor is so compelling as a human being and so vital as a public thinker.”—Michael BeschlossIn 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 ... Read more

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  • Breaking In

    The Rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice

    by Joan Biskupic ...
    "I knew she'd be trouble."So quipped Antonin Scalia about Sonia Sotomayor at the Supreme Court's annual end-of-term party in 2010. It's usually the sort of event one would expect from such a grand institution, with gentle parodies of the justices performed by their law clerks, but this year Sotomayor decided to shake it up—flooding the room with salsa music and coaxing her fellow justices to dance ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Uprising

    How Scott Walker Betrayed Wisconsin and Inspired a New Politics of Protest

    by John Nichols ...
    On February 11, 2011, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker announced he would strip collective bargaining rights from public employees and teachers. In response, people rose up in mass protest, and Wisconsin became a reference point for a renewal of labor militancy and radical politics. These protests elicited extensive national media coverage, and drew more attention from the general public than any ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Minneapolis in the Twentieth Century

    The Growth of an American City

    by Iric Nathanson ...
    Today, Minneapolis is considered one of the most desirable places to live in the United States. However, like most cities, Minneapolis has its own checkered history.Iric Nathanson shines a light in dark corners of the city's past, exploring corruption that existed between the police department and city hall, brutal suppression of Depression-era unions, and reports on anti-Semitism at midcentury. ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Henry Friendly, Greatest Judge of His Era

    by David M. Dorsen ...
    Henry Friendly is frequently grouped with Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Brandeis, Benjamin Cardozo, and Learned Hand as the best American jurists of the twentieth century. In this first, comprehensive biography of Friendly, Dorsen opens a unique window onto how a judge of this caliber thinks and decides cases, and how Friendly lived his life. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Oliver Wendell Holmes

    Sage of the Supreme Court

    by G. Edward White ...
    Series series Oxford Portraits
    An influential justice who refused to bow to politics and devoted his keen mind to the U.S. Supreme Court until the age of 90, Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935) helped formulate some of the most progressive judicial thought in 20th-century American history. G. Edward White first sketches Holmes's early years-his childhood in Boston, undergraduate years at Harvard, and his valiant service in the ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Sauerkraut, Suspenders, and the Swiss

    A Political History of Green County’S Swiss Colony, 1845–1945

    by Duane H. Freitag ...
    From the first Cheese Day in 1874 to the Great Limburger War of 1935, author Duane H. Freitag peers into the nooks and crannies of the tumultuous political history of Green County, Wisconsin.In this previously untold story, Freitag pulls back the curtain to uncover how the Swiss immigrants who settled in southern Wisconsin influenced Green County politics from 1845 to 1945. Buffeted by wars, dairy ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Saving the Soul of Georgia

    Donald L. Hollowell and the Struggle for Civil Rights

    by Maurice C. Daniels ...
    Donald L. Hollowell was Georgia’s chief civil rights attorney during the 1950s and 1960s. In this role he defended African American men accused or convicted of capital crimes in a racially hostile legal system, represented movement activists arrested for their civil rights work, and fought to undermine the laws that maintained state-sanctioned racial discrimination. In Saving the Soul of Georgia, ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • South Dakota's Cowboy Governor Tom Berry

    Leadership During the Depression

    by Paul S. Higbee ...
    As South Dakotans endured the Great Depression and developing Dust Bowl in 1932, they elected a cowboy as their governor. Tom Berry rode in the great, iconic 1902 cattle roundup ordered by President Theodore Roosevelt. He established the successful Double X ranch next to the Badlands. Big voiced and tireless, Berry commanded the attention of all, including President Franklin Roosevelt, who broke ... Read more

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  • Sunflower Justice

    A New History of the Kansas Supreme Court

    by R. Alton Lee ...
    Series series Law in the American West
    Until recently, American legal historiography focused almost solely on national government. Although much of Kansas law reflects U.S. law, the state court’s arbitrary powers over labor-management conflicts, yellow dog contracts, civil rights, gender issues, and domestic relations set precedents that reverberated around the country. Sunflower Justice is a pioneering work that presents the history ... Read more

    $46.79 USD