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1.		Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury: Greatest Closing Arguments in Modern Law from Scribner Customer Review: This book, the first in a series of three by the authors, looks at significant trials in American history. What I found interesting as a teacher of trial advocacy is the ability to read closing arguments from a wide variety of lawyers that took place in the context of interesting trials. Is the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


2.		The Supremes' Greatest Hits: The 34 Supreme Court Cases That Most Directly Affect Your Life from Sterling Price: $9.95 Customer Review: This thin volume provides an excellent introduction to many of the most important supreme court cases that shape this country, and could be used as a guide for further readings on them. Each chapter review a specific topic (separation of church and state, discrimination, etc.), with important cases... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


3.		For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Chicago from Harper Price: $18.45 Customer Review: The author was my history professor. Simon Baatz is a much better lecturer than a writer. His lectures were so interesting on topics of crime. This book is okay borderline boring. I read better books (even on this case). I think he should have gave the book some feeling vs. being so dry and detail... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


4.		Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court from Penguin (Non-Classics) Price: $10.88 Customer Review: Fine popular account of the jostlings, jarrings, and jealousies behind the marble pillars. The reader will discover--mirable dictu!--that the justices and the politicians who put them in place are filled with human sensibilities and foibles. Greenburg mastered the Woodward techinque of... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


5.		Disorder in the Court: Great Fractured Moments in Courtroom History from W. W. Norton & Company Price: $11.16 Customer Review: I kept getting emails about funny anecdotes about things that happened in court attributed to "disorder in the court". This can't be the same book. There was nothing funny in it.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


6.		The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight over Presidential Power from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $15.84 Customer Review: First, the grueling nature preparing for what became arguably the most important constitutional law ruling by the Supreme Court in 30 years is incredible. Take a constitutional law prof at Georgetown with a terminally ill father, a card-carrying-member of the ACLU Navy lawyer with ADD, and top... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


7.		Gideon's Trumpet from Vintage Price: $11.16 Customer Review: This book gives a great account of how a simple criminal case made its way to the Supreme Court, but also explains a lot about the court's reasoning when it comes to criminal cases and stare decisis. Also helps show how a brilliant legal minds works, and highlights the differences between a lawyer... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


8.		Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion from Harvard University Press Customer Review: Wow! Larson's book is one that I had a difficult time putting down. I was familiar with the 'Scopes' trial a bit before hand, but had no idea that the trial wasn't really about Scopes at all. He even describes himself as a spectator at his own trial, in which the bigger argument was being showcased.... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


9.		Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case from Thomas Dunne Books Price: $17.79 Customer Review: In the early twentieth century, we had "To kill a Mockingbird". Now in the twentieth century we have "until Proven Innocent". I highly recommend that you read this book.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


10.		The Devil's Advocates: Greatest Closing Arguments in Criminal Law from Scribner Price: $13.14 Customer Review: The authors once again have written a fine book which looks at landmark closing arguments. In this book, the third in their series, they focus on noteworthy crimes that formed the basis for trials. You will read the closing argument of Clarence Darrow, one of the 20th Century's most famous lawyers,... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


11.		The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries That Defined America from Holt Paperbacks Price: $10.20 Customer Review: I found this account of the Supreme Court far less engaging than "The Nine". Rosen's main point - that judicial temperament determines success on the court, in the sense that justices who work well with others have more influence - hardly qualifies as an earth-shattering insight. But it causes him... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


12.		The Legal Analyst: A Toolkit for Thinking about the Law from University Of Chicago Press Price: $18.90 Customer Review: It's unfortunate that this book uses the term legal in the title since that might turn off potential readers who are not lawyers. The topics covered in this book would be interesting to anyone with an interest in politics, economics, public policy, and of course law. Some of the discussion is geared... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


13.		The Supreme Court from Vintage Price: $10.85 Customer Review: Chief Justice Rehnquist is a great historian who focuses his history of the Supreme Court on the cases it has decided. He takes the reader down the path of US history by telling the story fo the Court. He ends the book with a brief few chapters on how the Court operates today, which is... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


14.		A History of American Law: Third Edition from Touchstone Price: $17.75 Customer Review: I read the book before I entered law school in order to get a general understanding of the history of American law. Professor Friedman's comprehensive work is of little use to law students (or anyone entering law school) looking for a practical guide to the study and practice of law. Frankly, you... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


15.		Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell from The Johns Hopkins University Press Price: $19.77 Customer Review: Paul A. Lombardo's recently published book, "Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell" is a poignant retelling of the court decisions regarding the forced sterilization of a young woman named Carrie Buck. Although written objectively, Lombardo's heart comes... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


16.		Crossing Hitler: The Man Who Put the Nazis on the Witness Stand from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $18.45 Customer Review: There is an old saying that "My enemy's enemy is my friend." A sometime corollary of that saying could be "My enemy's enemy is a hero." The story of Hans Litten is the story of an enemy of 20th Century civilization's worst enemy. Litten was a barrister in Weimar Germany who resisted Hitler and the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


17.		A People's History of the Supreme Court from Viking Adult Customer Review: Peter Irons is an ardent patriot. He believes passionately in the founding promises of America as expressed in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, especially the Bill of Rights: "all men are created equal" - "life liberty and the pursuit of happiness" for all people - "justice for... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


18.		Gun Control on Trial: Inside the Supreme Court Battle Over the Second Amendment from Cato Institute Price: $11.53	Click here for more information


19.		Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made from Riverhead Hardcover Price: $23.36 Customer Review: This book brought back a lot of memories for me - Warren as our Attorney General who sent the Japanese to the camps in 1942, as our Governor for 11 years, a good governor, a decent man, well respected, pretty much middle of the road with good appointments, my old friend Bill Sweigert being one of... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


20.		The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction from Henry Holt and Co. Price: $17.82 Customer Review: Charles Lane's book is a fascinating look into the dark politics of race in the Reconstructionist South. It creates a riveting account of escalating tension in a small Louisianna Parish (ironically, named "Grant") between well-meaning White Republicans, former slaves and White Supremacists tied in... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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