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“michael meltsner”

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  • Mosaic: Who Paid for the Bullet?

    by Michael Meltsner ...
    A life-changing crime story, MOSAIC brings to life the compelling story of the 60s murder of a charismatic woman doctor who courted danger trying to dismantle a racially segregated healthcare system in a large southern city. The search for who ordered the killing takes civil rights lawyer Christopher North to the centers of power, where a government intervention goes deadly wrong. It also forces ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cruel and Unusual: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment

    by Michael Meltsner ...
    True, gripping 1st-person account of how a small band of determined lawyers, in a 9-year campaign in courts and the public, abolished the death penalty in the U.S. Their plan was as bold as the attempt to land on the moon. And while the victory was as impermanent as man's presence on the moon, the personal tale resonates with readers (not just lawyers or students) today. New Foreword and Preface. ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • With Passion: An Activist Lawyer's Life

    by Michael Meltsner ...
    Growing up in a Depression battered family, one tangled by a mortal secret, 'With Passion' tells the improbable story of an unsung hero of the civil rights movement who thought of himself as a miscast lawyer but ended up defending peaceful protesters, representing Mohammad Ali, suing Robert Moses, counseling Lenny Bruce, bringing the case that integrated hundreds of Southern hospitals and named ... Read more

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  • Short Takes

    by Michael Meltsner ...
    Novel, first published by Random House, about a liberal lawyer's urban journeys in New York, facing the angst of seeing his work undone by institutional inertia and his relationships undone by indecision and the handcuffs of people's expected roles. "...engaging and extremely well written first novel, creates a character of enormous vitality and considerable charm, funny, caring..." --Boston Globe ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Renegade for Justice

    Defending the Defenseless in an Outlaw World

    by Stephen Saltonstall ...
    “This is a book of courtroom war stories, drawn from my forty years of experience as an obscure lawyer for the underdog and the downtrodden.” So begins Renegade for Justice, a memoir of a public interest lawyer driven by the cause of justice. While the stories Stephen Saltonstall tells are entertaining, they are also instructive, providing, as he says, “an insider look at the American justice ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD

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  • A Colony in a Nation

    by Chris Hayes ...
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  • Texas Tough

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  • The American Spectator's Enemies List

    A Vigilant Journalist's Plea for a Renewed Red Scare

    Edited by P. J. O'Rourke ...
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  • Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?

    by Mumia Abu-Jamal ...
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  • Supreme Discomfort

    The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas

    by Kevin Merida, Michael Fletcher ...
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