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彼女の一つのツイートが私の人生を変えた……この裁判は私の存在証明だった。

A soul-stirring biography of John Marshall, the young Republic's great chief justice who led the Supreme Court to power and brought law and order to the nation....

Given her incredible tenure as a Supreme Court justice as well as her monumental impact on the modern women’s rights movement, Ruth Bader Ginsburg has become one of the most prominent political leaders of today....

A gripping inside account of the mechanisms of law and order....

The American legal system changed dramatically when the OJ Simpson trial became a television-ratings bonanza. Now it's all crime, all the time....

Up against incredible odds, and with a strong conviction of her innocence, McArthur remained with Caril and fought for her freedom for 18 years....

The first definitive biography of Mitch McConnell, revealing an intimate look at the personal and political life of one of the most powerful senators in American history. In the long history of American government, few senators have wielded as much power as Kentucky’s Mitch McConnell. That’s...

Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg’s life shaped her career, and her career shaped her life....

The remarkable story of Sir Sydney Kentridge, QC, the greatest living barrister. Sydney Kentridge carved out a reputation as South Africa's most prominent anti-apartheid advocate—his story is entwined with the country's emergence from racial injustice and oppression. He is the only lawyer to...

In the follow-up to the wildly successful documentary by the same name, Created Equal builds on dozens of hours of groundbreaking one-on-one interviews with Clarence Thomas to share a new, expanded account of his powerful story for the first time....

‘An incredible read. I laughed, I cried and my heart was truly touched by this beautifully written true story of hope and humanity at its best.’ Rosemary Conley CBE 'An extraordinary story. Truly Inspirational' Tim Vine An astonishing story of kindness, self-learning, pain, unbelievable hope...

A CIA station chief, later Jordan's lawyer in Washington, reveals the secret history of a lost peace....

J. W. Freiberg consulted on hundreds of cases involving clients affected by chronic and debilitating loneliness....

“[Chen’s] story is a reminder that the desire for basic human rights . . . arises from the deep well of the human spirit.”—The New York Times Book Review It was like a scene out of a thriller: One night in April 2012, China’s most famous political activist—a blind, self-taught...

When Clarence Thomas joined the Supreme Court in 1991, he found with dismay that it was interpreting a very different Constitution from the one the framers had written - the one that had established a federal government....

When I attended Jefferson Elementary School in Charlottesville in 1960, I was selected to recite the poem "The Path" by Paul Lawrence Dunbar, the noted black poet. That poem captured the story of my life....

Thomas Calhoun Walker was many things, including a slave, teacher, lawyer, government official, humanitarian, civil rights leader, and adviser to presidents....

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD The “gripping” (The New York Times) true story of a Jewish lawyer who returned to Germany after World War II to prosecute war crimes, only to find himself pitted against a nation determined to bury the past—from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling...

Widely known as the "poor man's lawyer" in antebellum Boston, John Albion Andrew (1818-1867) was involved in nearly every cause and case that advanced social and racial justice in Boston in the years preceding the Civil War. In this biography, Stephen D. Engle traces Andrew's life and legacy.