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Sonia Sotomayor
ABC-CLIO 2012; US$ 37.00This insightful biography introduces readers to Justice Sonia Sotomayor, a remarkable woman with a single-minded pursuit of educational excellence, who rose from poverty in a Bronx housing project to a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. more...
Young Thurgood
Prometheus Books 2012; US$ 12.99As only biography of Thurgood Marshall to be endorsed by Marshall's immediate family, this exhaustively researched and engagingly written work will be of interest to any everyone interested in law, civil rights, American history, and biography. Thurgood Marshall was the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century. He transformed the nation's... more...
The People's Advocate
Counterpoint 2013;The People?s Advocate is the autobiography of American Constitutional Trial Attorney Daniel Sheehan. Sheehan traces his personal journey from his working-class roots through Harvard Law School and his initial career in private practice. His early disenchantment led to his return for further study at Harvard Divinity School, and rethinking the nature... more...
The Nominee
University Press of Mississippi 2013; US$ 87.50President George W. Bush nominated Leslie H. Southwick in 2007 to the federal appeals court, Fifth Circuit, based in New Orleans. Initially, Southwick seemed a consensus nominee. Just days before his hearing, though, a progressive advocacy group distributed the results of research it had conducted on opinions of the state court on which he had served... more...
Keeping It Civil
Algonquin Books 2013; US$ 24.95A woman seeking a divorce has no idea of the family finances?her husband doled out money only after she gave him requisition slips for her intended purchases. A lesbian couple wants to include their sperm donor in their child?s life?the sperm donor is the brother of one partner, so he will be the biological father as well as the child?s uncle. These... more...
Nobody Heard Me Cry
Hodder & Stoughton 2011; Not AvailableJohn grew up in poverty in Limerick, Ireland, in the 1960s. Fatherless, and with a family in chaos, John fell prey to the predatory clutches of a neighbour, setting off a cycle of sexual abuse that eventually led to being sold as a teenage prostitute. Against all odds, John put himself through college and became a lawyer. But there was no escaping... more...
Judging Thomas
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 13.99Clarence Thomas, the youngest and most controversial member of the Supreme Court, could become the longest-serving justice in history, influencing American law for decades to come. Who is this enigmatic man? And what does he believe in? Judging Thomas tells the remarkable story of Clarence Thomas's improbable journey from hardscrabble beginnings... more...
Justice for All
Penguin Group US 2007; US$ 22.00In Justice for All , Jim Newton, an award-winning journalist for the Los Angeles Times , brings readers the first truly comprehensive consideration of Earl Warren, the politician-turned-Chief Justice who refashioned the place of the court in American life through landmark Supreme Court cases whose names have entered the common parlance -- Brown... more...
Louis D. Brandeis
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 24.95The 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... more...
Stepping Stones
Lexington Books 2009; US$ 29.99Young people are rediscovering a vision that 'another world is possible' and dedicating themselves to public service. Alice and Staughton Lynd offer a significant model of what it can mean to devote a lifetime to these ideals. more...









