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The Injustice System: A Murder in Miami and a Trial Gone Wrong

Clive Stafford Smith · Viking Adult
Format: Hardcover

The maverick public defender who inspired John Grisham tells the story of his most frustrating caseA man accused of a murder he didn’t commit languishes on death row. A crusading lawyer is determined to free him. This powerful book reads like a page-turning legal thriller with one crucial...
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The Price of Justice: A True Story of Greed and Corruption

Laurence Leamer · Times Books
Format: Hardcover

A nonfiction legal thriller that traces the fourteen-year struggle of two lawyers to bring the most powerful coal baron in American history, Don Blankenship, to justiceDon Blankenship, head of Massey Energy since the early 1990s, ran an industry that provides nearly half of Americas electric...
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Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors

Peter Ackroyd · Thomas Dunne Books; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover

Peter Ackroyd, whose work has always been underpinned by a profound interest in and understanding of England's history, now tells the epic story of England itself.In Foundation, the chronicler of London and of its river, the Thames, takes us from the primeval forests of England's...
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The Italian Americans: A History

Maria Laurino · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

This gorgeous companion book to the PBS series illuminates an important, overlooked part of American history.In this richly researched, beautifully designed and illustrated volume, Maria Laurino strips away stereotypes and nostalgia to tell the complicated, centuries-long story of the true...
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America's Fiscal Constitution: Its Triumph and Collapse

William H White · PublicAffairs
Pages: 557
Format: Hardcover

America's Fiscal Constitution: Its Triumph and Collapse (PublicAffairs, April 1, 2014) tells the remarkable story of federal leaders who imposed clear limits on the use of federal debt. For almost two centuries those limits allowed the federal government to borrow for only four purposes....
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Their Last Full Measure: The Final Days of the Civil War

· Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover

Dramatic developments unfolded during the first months of 1865 that brought America's bloody Civil War to a swift climax.As the Confederacy crumbled under the Union army's relentless "hammering," Federal armies marched on the Rebels' remaining bastions in Alabama,...
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And Man Created God: A History of the World at the Time of Jesus

Selina O'Grady · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

At the time of Jesus birth , the world was full of gods. Thousands of them jostled, competed and merged with one another. In Syria ecstatic devotees castrated themselves in the streets to become priests of Atargatis In Galilee, holy men turned oil into wine, healed the sick, drove out devils,...
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Venice: A New History

Thomas F. Madden · Viking Adult; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

An extraordinary chronicle of Venice, its people, and its grandeur Thomas Madden’s majestic, sprawling history of Venice is the first full portrait of the city in English in almost thirty years. Using long-buried archival material and a wealth of newly translated documents, Madden...
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