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Media Studies eBook Series

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  • Covering the Courts

    Free Press, Fair Trials, and Journalistic Performance

    by Robert Giles ...
    Series series Media Studies
    Covering the Courts shows how writers and journalists deal with present-day major trials, such as those involving Timothy McVeigh and O.J. Simpson. The volume features such outstanding contributors as Linda Deutsch and Fred Graham, and provides an in-depth look at the performance of the court in an age of heightened participation by reporters, camera operators, social scientists, major moguls of ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Fight of the Century

    Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases

    by Viet Thanh Nguyen, Jacqueline woodson, Ann Patchett, Brit Bennett, Steven Okazaki, David Handler, Geraldine Brooks, Yaa Gyasi, Sergio De La Pava, Dave Eggers, Timothy Egan, Li Yiyun, Meg Wolitzer, Hector Tobar, Aleksandar Hemon, Elizabeth Strout, Rabih Alameddine, Moriel Rothman-Zecher, Jonathan Lethem, Salman Rushdie, Lauren Groff, Jennifer Egan, Scott Turow, Morgan Parker, Victor Lavalle, Michael Cunningham, Neil Gaiman, Jesmyn Ward, Moses Sumney, George Saunders, Marlon James, William Finnegan, Anthony Doerr, C.J. Anders, Brenda J. Childs, Andrew Sean Greer, Louise Erdrich, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc ...
    The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this “forceful, beautifully written” (Associated Press) collection that brings together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case.On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • A Colony in a Nation

    by Chris Hayes ...
    **New York Times BestsellerNew York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice"An essential and groundbreaking text in the effort to understand how American criminal justice went so badly awry." —Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of Between the World and Me**In A Colony in a Nation, New York Times best-selling author and Emmy Award–winning news anchor Chris Hayes upends the national conversation on policing and ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

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  • Letters to a Young Lawyer

    by Alan M. Dershowitz ...
    As defender of both the righteous and the questionable, Alan Dershowitz has become perhaps the most famous and outspoken attorney in the land. Whether or not they agree with his legal tactics, most people would agree that he possesses a powerful and profound sense of justice. In this meditation on his profession, Dershowitz writes about life, law, and the opportunities that young lawyers have to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Suspicion Nation

    The Inside Story of the Trayvon Martin Injustice and Why We Continue to Repeat It

    by Lisa Bloom ...
    Many thought the election of our first African American president put an end to the conversation about race in this country, and that America had moved into a post–racial era of equality and opportunity. Then, on the night of February 26, 2012, a black seventeen–year–old boy walking to a friend's home carrying only his cell phone, candy, and a fruit drink, was shot and killed by a neighborhood ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Sandra Day O'Connor

    How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice

    by Joan Biskupic ...
    "Sandra Day O'Connor takes you behind the closed doors of the Supreme Court to reveal how Justice O'Connor helped craft landmark decisions on abortion, affirmative action, and a host of other critical issues. Joan Biskupic has broken new ground in reporting on O'Connor's life and historic role on the high court. This lively, fast-paced account will make people rethink how they view this ... Read more

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  • Ultimate Punishment

    A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty

    by Scott Turow ...
    The #1 New York Times -bestselling legal thriller writer delivers "the most convincing, levelheaded analysis of [the death penalty] I have encountered" ( The Washington Post ).Scott Turow is known to millions as the author of peerless novels about the troubling regions of experience where law and reality intersect. In "real life," as a respected criminal lawyer, he has been involv... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Taking the Stand

    My Life in the Law

    by Alan Dershowitz ...
    **#1 New York Times bestselling author Alan Dershowitz recounts his extraordinary coming of age in this legal autobiography, as well as the cases that have changed American jurisprudence over the past fifty years, most of which he has personally been involved in.“Overflowing with fascinating and funny vignettes involving his cases and clients, and probing and provocative insights into contemporary ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • The Tyranny of Good Intentions

    How Prosecutors and Law Enforcement Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice

    by Paul Craig Roberts, Lawrence M. Stratton ...
    A thousand years of legal protections against tyranny are being stolen right before our eyes. Under the guise of good intentions, personal liberties as old as the Magna Carta have become casualties in the wars being waged on pollution, drugs, white-collar crime, and all of the other real and imagined social ills. The result: innocent people caught up in a bureaucratic web that destroys lives and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Speaking Truth to Power

    A Memoir

    by Anita Hill ...
    Twent-six years before the #metoo movement, Anita Hill sparked a national conversation about sexual harassment in the workplace when she testified against Clarence Thomas.After her astonishing testimony in the Clarence Thomas hearings, Anita Hill ceased to be a private citizen and became a public figure at the white-hot center of an intense national debate on how men and women relate to each other ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • A Lawyer's Life

    by Johnnie Cochran, David Fisher ...
    The most famous lawyer in America talks about the law, his life, and how he has won.Johnnie Cochran has been a lawyer for almost forty years. In that time, he has taken on dozens of groundbreaking cases and emerged as a pivotal figure in race relations in America. Cochran gained international recognition as one of America's best - and most controversial lawyers - for leading 'the Dream Team' ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Court TV's You Be the Judge

    100 Incredible, Provocative, and Fascinating Real-Life Cases

    by Patrick J. Sauer ...
    A drug dealer gets shot in a hotel parking lot - is the hotel liable?Do workers have a right to organize when they're illegal aliens?Can the KKK march in New York City where there's a law against congregating in masks?YOU BE THE JUDGE!Here is Court TV's riveting compilation of one hundred actual court cases, ranging from the silly to the serious, the outrageous to the offensive, historic to ... Read more

    $11.59 USD