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Covering
The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights
Written by Kenji Yoshino
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: February 20, 2007
Price: $15.95
In this remarkable and elegant work, acclaimed Yale Law School professor Kenji Yoshino fuses legal manifesto and poetic memoir to call for a redefinition of civil rights in our law and culture.
Everyone covers. To cover is to downplay a disfavored trait so as to blend into the mainstream. Because all of... Read more >
The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights
Written by Kenji Yoshino
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: February 20, 2007
Price: $15.95
In this remarkable and elegant work, acclaimed Yale Law School professor Kenji Yoshino fuses legal manifesto and poetic memoir to call for a redefinition of civil rights in our law and culture.
Everyone covers. To cover is to downplay a disfavored trait so as to blend into the mainstream. Because all of... Read more >
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My Face Is Black Is True
Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations
Written by Mary Frances Berry
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $14.95
“My face is black is true but its not my fault but I love my name and my honest dealing with my fellow man.” –Callie House (1899)
In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed historian Dr. Mary Frances Berry resurrects the remarkable story of ex-slave Callie House (1861-1928) who, seventy years before the civil-rights... Read more >
Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations
Written by Mary Frances Berry
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $14.95
“My face is black is true but its not my fault but I love my name and my honest dealing with my fellow man.” –Callie House (1899)
In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed historian Dr. Mary Frances Berry resurrects the remarkable story of ex-slave Callie House (1861-1928) who, seventy years before the civil-rights... Read more >
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The Death of Innocents
An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions
Written by Helen Prejean
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: January 24, 2006
Price: $14.95
From the author of the national bestseller Dead Man Walking comes a brave and fiercely argued new book that tests the moral edge of the debate on capital punishment: What if we’re executing innocent men? Two cases in point are Dobie Gillis Williams, an indigent black man with an IQ of... Read more >
An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions
Written by Helen Prejean
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: January 24, 2006
Price: $14.95
From the author of the national bestseller Dead Man Walking comes a brave and fiercely argued new book that tests the moral edge of the debate on capital punishment: What if we’re executing innocent men? Two cases in point are Dobie Gillis Williams, an indigent black man with an IQ of... Read more >
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The Death of Innocents
An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions
Written by Helen Prejean
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 24, 2006
Price: $14.95
Sister Helen Prejean was a little-known Roman Catholic nun from Louisiana when in 1993, her first book Dead Man Walking, challenged the way we look at the death penalty in America. It became a #1 New York Times bestseller and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Now in The Death of... Read more >
An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions
Written by Helen Prejean
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 24, 2006
Price: $14.95
Sister Helen Prejean was a little-known Roman Catholic nun from Louisiana when in 1993, her first book Dead Man Walking, challenged the way we look at the death penalty in America. It became a #1 New York Times bestseller and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Now in The Death of... Read more >
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Simple Justice
The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality
Written by Richard Kluger
Format: Trade Paperback, 880 pages
On Sale: April 13, 2004
Price: $24.00
Simple Justice is the definitive history of the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education and the epic struggle for racial equality in this country. Combining intensive research with original interviews with surviving participants, Richard Kluger provides the fullest possible view of the human and legal drama in the years before... Read more >
The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality
Written by Richard Kluger
Format: Trade Paperback, 880 pages
On Sale: April 13, 2004
Price: $24.00
Simple Justice is the definitive history of the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education and the epic struggle for racial equality in this country. Combining intensive research with original interviews with surviving participants, Richard Kluger provides the fullest possible view of the human and legal drama in the years before... Read more >
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Legal Lynching
The Death Penalty and America's Future
Written by Rev. Jesse Jackson and Bruce Shapiro
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: January 7, 2003
Price: $12.00
The death penalty is one of the most hotly contested issues in America today. Evidence continues to mount that many innocent people have been executed or are currently living on death row, and that minority groups and the poor suffer from a shoddy public defense system and discriminatory application of capital... Read more >
The Death Penalty and America's Future
Written by Rev. Jesse Jackson and Bruce Shapiro
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: January 7, 2003
Price: $12.00
The death penalty is one of the most hotly contested issues in America today. Evidence continues to mount that many innocent people have been executed or are currently living on death row, and that minority groups and the poor suffer from a shoddy public defense system and discriminatory application of capital... Read more >
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Last Man Standing
The Tragedy and Triumph of Geronimo Pratt
Written by Jack Olsen
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2001
Price: $18.95
Jack Olsen's Last Man Standing is the gripping story of Geronimo Pratt, war hero and community leader, who was framed by the FBI in one of the greatest travesties of justice in American history.
Geronimo Pratt did not commit the murder for which he served twenty-seven nightmarish years. As a UCLA student... Read more >
The Tragedy and Triumph of Geronimo Pratt
Written by Jack Olsen
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2001
Price: $18.95
Jack Olsen's Last Man Standing is the gripping story of Geronimo Pratt, war hero and community leader, who was framed by the FBI in one of the greatest travesties of justice in American history.
Geronimo Pratt did not commit the murder for which he served twenty-seven nightmarish years. As a UCLA student... Read more >
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The Pig Farmer's Daughter and Other Tales of American Justice
Episodes of Racism and Sexism in the Courts from 1865 to the Present
Written by Mary Frances Berry
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 11, 2000
Price: $14.95
"Sweeping and important... Provides a fascinating vision of justice and history." --The Washington Post Book World
From the head of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission comes a landmark study of the ways in which prejudice has shaped American justice from the Civil War era to the present. With an ear tuned to... Read more >
Episodes of Racism and Sexism in the Courts from 1865 to the Present
Written by Mary Frances Berry
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 11, 2000
Price: $14.95
"Sweeping and important... Provides a fascinating vision of justice and history." --The Washington Post Book World
From the head of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission comes a landmark study of the ways in which prejudice has shaped American justice from the Civil War era to the present. With an ear tuned to... Read more >
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All the Laws but One
Civil Liberties in Wartime
Written by William H. Rehnquist
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: January 4, 2000
Price: $14.95
In All the Laws but One, William H. Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States, provides an insightful and fascinating account of the history of civil liberties during wartime and illuminates the cases where presidents have suspended the law in the name of national security.
Abraham Lincoln, champion of freedom and... Read more >
Civil Liberties in Wartime
Written by William H. Rehnquist
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: January 4, 2000
Price: $14.95
In All the Laws but One, William H. Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States, provides an insightful and fascinating account of the history of civil liberties during wartime and illuminates the cases where presidents have suspended the law in the name of national security.
Abraham Lincoln, champion of freedom and... Read more >
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eBook.
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