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Author
Publisher
Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
More than any other people on earth, Americans are free to say and write what they think. The media can air the secrets of the White House, the boardroom, or the bedroom with little fear of punishment or penalty. The reason for this extraordinary freedom is not a superior culture of tolerance, but just fourteen words in our most fundamental legal document: the free expression clauses of the First Amendment to the Constitution. In this book, the story...
Author
Language
English
Description
"One of America's greatest investigative reporters brings to life the gripping, no-holds-barred clash of two American titans: Robert Kennedy and his nemesis Jimmy Hoffa. From 1957 to 1964, Robert Kennedy and Jimmy Hoffa channeled nearly all of their considerable powers into destroying each other. Kennedy's battle with Hoffa burst into the public consciousness with the 1957 Senate Rackets Committee hearings and intensified when his brother named him...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
From an award-winning lawyer-reporter, this radically new explanation for America's failing justice system squarely places the blame on the assembly-line approach of the nation's courtrooms and argues for the development of a new method of checks and balances.
5) Deep conviction: true stories of ordinary Americans fighting for the freedom to live their beliefs
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Deep conviction features four ordinary Americans--a Catholic, an atheist, a Native American, and a Christian baker--who put their reputations and livelihoods at risk as they fought to protect their first amendment right to live their personal beliefs."--Provided by the publisher.
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
From the leading constitutional lawyer who has sued every president since LBJ, a masterful explication of the "pillars of our democracy"
On November 9, 2016, many Americans feared that our democracy was on the verge of collapse. But is it? In an erudite and brilliant evaluation of the current state of our government, noted constitutional scholar Burt Neuborne administers a stress test to democracy and concludes that our unprecedented sets of constitutional...
Author
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In this controversial and provocative book, Mary Anne Franks examines the thin line between constitutional fidelity and constitutional fundamentalism. The Cult of the Constitution reveals how deep fundamentalist strains in both conservative and liberal American thought keep the Constitution in the service of white male supremacy. Constitutional fundamentalists read the Constitution selectively and self-servingly. Fundamentalist interpretations of...
