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The Lincoln Lawyer
The Lincoln Lawyer© 2005 Michael Connelly404 pages Mickey Haller is a lawyer on the move, a criminal defender whose clients are so numerous and widespread that he conducts business from the backseat of his Lincoln Towncar. For him, the law … Continue reading
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Tagged law, Los Angeles, Michael Connelly, Mickey Haller series, thriller
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The Cult of the Presidency
The Cult of the Presidency: America’s Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power© 2008 Gene Healy264 pages Every four years, men and women with permanently-fixed smiles assure us that they will end corruption in D.C, get the economy moving, and end our … Continue reading
American Cicero
American Cicero: The Life of Charles Carroll© 2010 Bradley Birzer 230 pages When Charles Carroll of Carrollton signed the Declaration of Independence, he was risking the biggest fortune on the American mainland. But Carroll had yearned for independence for more … Continue reading
The Cost of Liberty
The Cost of Liberty: The Life of John Dickinson© 2013 William Murchinson257 pages “Experience must be our only guide; reason may mislead us.” Can you claim to be a Founding Father if you didn’t sign the Declaration of Independence? What … Continue reading
The English People on the Eve of Colonization
The English People on the Eve of Colonization© 1954 Wallace Notestein302 pages If there was ever an exemplar for not judging a book by its cover, The English People on the Eve of Colonization is it. The binding is … Continue reading
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Tagged Britain, history, law, social history, Stuart England
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The Colonial Experience
The Americans: The Colonial Experience© 1967 Daniel Boorstin528 pages Daniel Boorstin’s The Americans delivers a cultural history of the American colonies, beginning first with profiles on the disparate groups that settled on the eastern seaboard (Puritans, Quakers, and … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Colonial America, Daniel Boorstin, history, law, religion
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Rise of the Warrior Cop
Rise of the Warrior Cop: the Militarization of America’s Police Forces © 2013 Radney Balko 400 pages A man’s home is his castle…but now the cops have bettering rams.. Among the sins of George the III, according to the Declaration … Continue reading
The Internet Police
The Internet Police: How Crime Went Online (and the Cops Followed)© 2014 Nate Anderson 310 pages Not since the steam engine has the world been so utterly transformed than by the Internet. Originally a military network, it is now infrastructure, undergirding modern life … Continue reading
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Tagged crime, Cybersecurity, digital world, law, Man vs Machine, surveillance, technology, Technology and Society
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Nullification
Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century© 2011 Thomas E. Woods, Jr309 pages In a game of word association, chances are that ‘nullification’ would not meet with flattering replies. Nullification is a word associated with the Civil … Continue reading
The Strange Career of Jim Crow
The Strange Career of Jim Crow© 1955, 1965 C. Van Woodward245 pages Fifty years ago, racial and civil unrest swept the United States as organized resistance to the morally outrageous and legally dodgy practice of … Continue reading
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Tagged America, American South, Civil Rights, history, law, politics, Politics-CivicInterest, race
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