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The Good Guys, the Bad Guys and the First Amendment
Free Speech Vs. Fairness in Broadcasting
Written by Fred W. Friendly
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: January 23, 2013
Price: $11.99
Unlike newspapers, TV and radio broadcasting is subject to government regulation in the form of the FCC and the Fairness Doctrine, which requires stations "to devote a reasonable amount of broadcast time to the discussion of controversial issues" and "to do so farily, in order to afford reasonable opportunity for opposing... Read more >
Free Speech Vs. Fairness in Broadcasting
Written by Fred W. Friendly
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: January 23, 2013
Price: $11.99
Unlike newspapers, TV and radio broadcasting is subject to government regulation in the form of the FCC and the Fairness Doctrine, which requires stations "to devote a reasonable amount of broadcast time to the discussion of controversial issues" and "to do so farily, in order to afford reasonable opportunity for opposing... Read more >
Simple Justice
The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality
Written by Richard Kluger
Format: eBook, 880 pages
On Sale: August 24, 2011
Price: $19.99
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: eBook, 880 pages
On Sale: August 24, 2011
Price: $19.99
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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Beyond the Burning Cross
A Landmark Case of Race, Censorship, and the First Amendment
Written by Edward J. Cleary
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: July 20, 2011
Price: $16.99
A Landmark Case of Race, Censorship, and the First Amendment
Written by Edward J. Cleary
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: July 20, 2011
Price: $16.99
Does our abhorrence of racism allow us to ban certain forms of speech? This is the simple yet subversive question that Edward J. Cleary posed to the U.S. Supreme Court when, in 1991, he defended a white student who had burned a cross on a black family's lawn in St. Paul...
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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: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: July 20, 2011
Price: $13.99
From the head of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission and noted professor of law and history at the University of Pennsylvania, a groundbreaking book that examines both civil and criminal court cases from the Civil War to the present, to reveal the impact of stereotyping--race, class, gender--on the American legal system... Read more >
Episodes of Racism and Sexism in the Courts from 1865 to the Present
Written by Mary Frances Berry
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: July 20, 2011
Price: $13.99
From the head of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission and noted professor of law and history at the University of Pennsylvania, a groundbreaking book that examines both civil and criminal court cases from the Civil War to the present, to reveal the impact of stereotyping--race, class, gender--on the American legal system... Read more >
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No Pity
People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement
Written by Joseph P. Shapiro
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: June 22, 2011
Price: $14.99
People with disabilities forging the newest and last human rights movement of the century.
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People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement
Written by Joseph P. Shapiro
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: June 22, 2011
Price: $14.99
People with disabilities forging the newest and last human rights movement of the century.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
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From the Closet to the Courtroom
Five LGBT Rights Lawsuits That Have Changed Our Nation
Written by Carlos A. Ball and Michael Bronski
Format: Trade Paperback, 296 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2011
Price: $18.00
Engaging and largely untold, From the Closet to the Courtroom explores how five pivotal lawsuits have altered LGBT history. Beginning each case narrative at the center—with the litigants and their lawyers—law professor Carlos Ball follows the stories behind each crucial lawsuit. He traces the parties from their communities to the courtroom... Read more >
Five LGBT Rights Lawsuits That Have Changed Our Nation
Written by Carlos A. Ball and Michael Bronski
Format: Trade Paperback, 296 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2011
Price: $18.00
Engaging and largely untold, From the Closet to the Courtroom explores how five pivotal lawsuits have altered LGBT history. Beginning each case narrative at the center—with the litigants and their lawyers—law professor Carlos Ball follows the stories behind each crucial lawsuit. He traces the parties from their communities to the courtroom... Read more >
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The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal
A Life in the Balance
Written by Amnesty International
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $6.95
Mumia Abu-Jamal has been incarcerated on Pennsylvania's death row for over two decades. His case has generated more controversy and received more attention, both national and international, than that of any other inmate currently under sentence of death in the United States of America.
Mumia Abu Jamal, black, was convicted and sentenced... Read more >
A Life in the Balance
Written by Amnesty International
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $6.95
Mumia Abu-Jamal has been incarcerated on Pennsylvania's death row for over two decades. His case has generated more controversy and received more attention, both national and international, than that of any other inmate currently under sentence of death in the United States of America.
Mumia Abu Jamal, black, was convicted and sentenced... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Democracy Detained
Secret Unconstitutional Practices in the U.S. War on Terror
Written by Barbara Olshansky
Introduction by Nat Hentoff
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $18.95
Democracy Detained exposes the deplorable secret crimes committed by the Bush administration in their war on terror. Prominent legal activist Barbara Olshansky documents the assault on our constitutional democracy since 9/11, meticulously analyzing the unlawful justifications made by the U.S. government for covert actions at home and abroad. She reports on... Read more >
Secret Unconstitutional Practices in the U.S. War on Terror
Written by Barbara Olshansky
Introduction by Nat Hentoff
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $18.95
Democracy Detained exposes the deplorable secret crimes committed by the Bush administration in their war on terror. Prominent legal activist Barbara Olshansky documents the assault on our constitutional democracy since 9/11, meticulously analyzing the unlawful justifications made by the U.S. government for covert actions at home and abroad. She reports on... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Silencing Political Dissent
How Post-September 11 Anti-Terrorism Measures Threaten Our Civil Liberties
Written by Nancy Chang
Foreword by Howard Zinn
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $9.95
In her groundbreaking new book, Silencing Political Dissent, constitutional expert Nancy Chang examines how the Bush administration's fight against terrorism is resulting in a disturbing erosion of First Amendment rights and increase of executive power.
Chang's compelling analysis begins with a historical review of political repression and intolerance of dissent in America... Read more >
How Post-September 11 Anti-Terrorism Measures Threaten Our Civil Liberties
Written by Nancy Chang
Foreword by Howard Zinn
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $9.95
In her groundbreaking new book, Silencing Political Dissent, constitutional expert Nancy Chang examines how the Bush administration's fight against terrorism is resulting in a disturbing erosion of First Amendment rights and increase of executive power.
Chang's compelling analysis begins with a historical review of political repression and intolerance of dissent in America... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Targeted
Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration
Written by Deepa Fernandes
Foreword by Howard Zinn
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $16.95
America has always portrayed itself as a country of immigrants, welcoming each year the millions seeking a new home or refuge in this land of plenty. Increasingly, instead of finding their dream, many encounter a nightmare—a country whose culture and legal system aggressively target and prosecute them.
In Targeted, journalist Deepa Fernandes... Read more >
Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration
Written by Deepa Fernandes
Foreword by Howard Zinn
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $16.95
America has always portrayed itself as a country of immigrants, welcoming each year the millions seeking a new home or refuge in this land of plenty. Increasingly, instead of finding their dream, many encounter a nightmare—a country whose culture and legal system aggressively target and prosecute them.
In Targeted, journalist Deepa Fernandes... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
From the Closet to the Courtroom
Five LGBT Rights Lawsuits That Have Changed Our Nation
Written by Carlos A. Ball and Michael Bronski
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 1, 2010
Price: $27.95
The advancement of LGBT rights has occurred through struggles large and small-on the streets, around kitchen tables, and on the Web. Lawsuits have also played a vital role in propelling the movement forward, and behind every case is a human story: a landlord in New York seeks to evict a gay... Read more >
Five LGBT Rights Lawsuits That Have Changed Our Nation
Written by Carlos A. Ball and Michael Bronski
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 1, 2010
Price: $27.95
The advancement of LGBT rights has occurred through struggles large and small-on the streets, around kitchen tables, and on the Web. Lawsuits have also played a vital role in propelling the movement forward, and behind every case is a human story: a landlord in New York seeks to evict a gay... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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The Guilt Project
Rape, Morality and Law
Written by Vanessa Place
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: March 23, 2010
Price: $25.95
An English court in 1736 described rape as an accusation “easily to be made and hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, though never so innocent. ”To prove the crime, the law required a woman to physically resist, to put up a “hue and cry,”... Read more >
Rape, Morality and Law
Written by Vanessa Place
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: March 23, 2010
Price: $25.95
An English court in 1736 described rape as an accusation “easily to be made and hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, though never so innocent. ”To prove the crime, the law required a woman to physically resist, to put up a “hue and cry,”... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
The Guilt Project
Rape, Morality, and Law
Written by Vanessa Place
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: March 23, 2010
Price: $19.99
An English court in 1736 described rape as an accusation “easily to be made and hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, though never so innocent. ”To prove the crime, the law required a woman to physically resist, to put up a “hue and cry,&rdquo... Read more >
Rape, Morality, and Law
Written by Vanessa Place
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: March 23, 2010
Price: $19.99
An English court in 1736 described rape as an accusation “easily to be made and hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, though never so innocent. ”To prove the crime, the law required a woman to physically resist, to put up a “hue and cry,&rdquo... Read more >
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Sweet Land of Liberty
The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North
Written by Thomas J. Sugrue
Format: Trade Paperback, 736 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $20.00
Sweet Land of Liberty is Thomas J. Sugrue’s epic account of the abiding quest for racial equality in states from Illinois to New York, and of how the intense northern struggle differed from and was inspired by the fight down South. Sugrue’s panoramic view sweeps from the 1920s to the present–more... Read more >
The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North
Written by Thomas J. Sugrue
Format: Trade Paperback, 736 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $20.00
Sweet Land of Liberty is Thomas J. Sugrue’s epic account of the abiding quest for racial equality in states from Illinois to New York, and of how the intense northern struggle differed from and was inspired by the fight down South. Sugrue’s panoramic view sweeps from the 1920s to the present–more... Read more >
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Judge Richard S. Arnold
A Legacy of Justice on the Federal Bench
Written by Polly J. Price
Format: Hardcover, 466 pages
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $25.99
In 1994, President Bill Clinton called federal appellate court Judge and fellow Arkansan Richard Sheppard Arnold "the most brilliant man on the federal bench." But for concerns about Arnold’s poor health, Clinton would have nominated him to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court left by the retirement of Justice Harry... Read more >
A Legacy of Justice on the Federal Bench
Written by Polly J. Price
Format: Hardcover, 466 pages
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $25.99
In 1994, President Bill Clinton called federal appellate court Judge and fellow Arkansan Richard Sheppard Arnold "the most brilliant man on the federal bench." But for concerns about Arnold’s poor health, Clinton would have nominated him to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court left by the retirement of Justice Harry... Read more >
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Sweet Land of Liberty
The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North
Written by Thomas J. Sugrue
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $15.99
The struggle for racial equality in the North has been a footnote in most books about civil rights in America. Now this monumental new work from one of the most brilliant historians of his generation sets the record straight. Sweet Land of Liberty is an epic, revelatory account of the abiding... Read more >
The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North
Written by Thomas J. Sugrue
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $15.99
The struggle for racial equality in the North has been a footnote in most books about civil rights in America. Now this monumental new work from one of the most brilliant historians of his generation sets the record straight. Sweet Land of Liberty is an epic, revelatory account of the abiding... Read more >
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The Tyranny of Good Intentions
How Prosecutors and Law Enforcement Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice
Written by Paul Craig Roberts and Lawrence M. Stratton
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: March 25, 2008
Price: $16.00
In this updated and expanded edition of The Tyranny of Good Intentions, Paul Craig Roberts and Lawrence M. Stratton renew their valiant campaign to reclaim that which is rightly ours–liberty protected by the rule of law. They show how crusading legislators and unfair prosecutors are remaking American law into a weapon... Read more >
How Prosecutors and Law Enforcement Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice
Written by Paul Craig Roberts and Lawrence M. Stratton
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: March 25, 2008
Price: $16.00
In this updated and expanded edition of The Tyranny of Good Intentions, Paul Craig Roberts and Lawrence M. Stratton renew their valiant campaign to reclaim that which is rightly ours–liberty protected by the rule of law. They show how crusading legislators and unfair prosecutors are remaking American law into a weapon... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Democracy Detained
Secret Unconstitutional Practices in the U.S. War on Terror
Written by Barbara Olshansky
Introduction by Nat Hentoff
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2007
Price: $18.95
Democracy Detained exposes the deplorable secret crimes committed by the Bush administration in their war on terror. Prominent legal activist Barbara Olshansky documents the assault on our constitutional democracy since 9/11, meticulously analyzing the unlawful justifications made by the U.S. government for covert actions at home and abroad. She reports on... Read more >
Secret Unconstitutional Practices in the U.S. War on Terror
Written by Barbara Olshansky
Introduction by Nat Hentoff
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2007
Price: $18.95
Democracy Detained exposes the deplorable secret crimes committed by the Bush administration in their war on terror. Prominent legal activist Barbara Olshansky documents the assault on our constitutional democracy since 9/11, meticulously analyzing the unlawful justifications made by the U.S. government for covert actions at home and abroad. She reports on... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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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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eBook.
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Targeted
Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration
Written by Deepa Fernandes
Foreword by Howard Zinn
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: January 7, 2007
Price: $16.95
America has always portrayed itself as a country of immigrants, welcoming each year the millions seeking a new home or refuge in this land of plenty. Increasingly, instead of finding their dream, many encounter a nightmare—a country whose culture and legal system aggressively target and prosecute them.
In Targeted, journalist Deepa Fernandes... Read more >
Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration
Written by Deepa Fernandes
Foreword by Howard Zinn
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: January 7, 2007
Price: $16.95
America has always portrayed itself as a country of immigrants, welcoming each year the millions seeking a new home or refuge in this land of plenty. Increasingly, instead of finding their dream, many encounter a nightmare—a country whose culture and legal system aggressively target and prosecute them.
In Targeted, journalist Deepa Fernandes... Read more >
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eBook.
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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: $15.95
“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: $15.95
“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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Executed on a Technicality
Lethal Injustice on America's Death Row
Written by David Dow
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2006
Price: $16.00
When David Dow took his first capital case, he supported the death penalty. He changed his position as the men on death row became real people to him, and as he came to witness the profound injustices they endured: from coerced confessions to disconcertingly incompetent lawyers; from racist juries and backward... Read more >
Lethal Injustice on America's Death Row
Written by David Dow
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2006
Price: $16.00
When David Dow took his first capital case, he supported the death penalty. He changed his position as the men on death row became real people to him, and as he came to witness the profound injustices they endured: from coerced confessions to disconcertingly incompetent lawyers; from racist juries and backward... 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: $16.00
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: $16.00
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: $11.99
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: eBook
On Sale: January 24, 2006
Price: $11.99
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 >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Executed on a Technicality
Lethal Injustice on America's Death Row
Written by David Dow
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 1, 2005
Price: $16.00
When David Dow took his first capital case, he supported the death penalty. He changed his position as the men on death row became real people to him, and as he came to witness the profound injustices they endured: from coerced confessions to disconcertingly incompetent lawyers; from racist juries and backward... Read more >
Lethal Injustice on America's Death Row
Written by David Dow
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 1, 2005
Price: $16.00
When David Dow took his first capital case, he supported the death penalty. He changed his position as the men on death row became real people to him, and as he came to witness the profound injustices they endured: from coerced confessions to disconcertingly incompetent lawyers; from racist juries and backward... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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