Lawyers & Judges

In 1849, while traveling as an attorney on the Eighth Judicial Circuit in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln befriended Leonard Swett (1825-89), a fellow attorney sixteen years his junior. Despite this age difference, the two men built an enduring friendship that...

In ""Scoundrels to the Hoosegow"", a veteran prosecutor who is also a consummate storyteller shares more than thirty entertaining legal stories drawn from real life, re-creating, with verve and wit, villains, heroes, and ordinary...

Willis William Ritter, United States District Judge for the District of Utah from 1949 until his death on March 4, 1978, was the one judge whose name was familiar among those who had little or no idea of the difference between judicial jurisdictions...

This biography of Joseph Henry Lumpkin (1799-1867) details the life and work of the man whose senior judgeship on Georgia's Supreme Court spanned more than twenty years at included service as its first Chief Justice. Paul Hicks portrays Lumpkin as both a...

After a successful career as a law professor and government regulator, William O. Douglas was appointed to the Supreme Court by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939. During his thirty-six years on the court, he became known as one of its most outspoken and...

Tom Coffman's portrait of Edward Nakamura is both insightful biography and engrossing political history. The arc of the story may sound familiar (the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, the GI Bill, Statehood), but it is strewn with surprise, resulting from...

The core question of this book: how a great lawyer who comes to represent important causes, emerges out of the racist, paternalistic, and self-perpetuating establishment of rural Georgia in the 1950s? What about Tommy Malone led him to take on the power...

It was Maurice Sugar, labor activist and lawyer for the United Auto Workers, who played a key role in guiding the newly-formed union through the treacherous legal terrain obstructing its development in the 1930s. He orchestrated the injunction hearings...

The Honorable Damon J. Keith was appointed to the federal bench in 1967 and has served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit since 1977, where he has been an eloquent defender of civil and constitutional rights and a...

This title tells the story of a pioneering female jurist. The first woman judge in the state of North Carolina and the first woman in the United States to be elected chief justice of a state supreme court, Susie Marshall Sharp (1907-96) broke new ground...

A memoir that is also a compelling page-turner, ""Philadelphia Freedom"" is the poignant, informative, often inspiring account of renowned civil-rights lawyer David Kairys' personal quest for achieving social justice during the...

This book explores the life and contributions of groundbreaking attorney, Elreta Melton Alexander Ralston (1919-98). In 1945 Alexander became the first African American woman to graduate from Columbia Law School. In 1947 she was the first African...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780795300417Author Nelson JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Rosetta BooksPublisher Rosetta BooksWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087866024Author Gay Majure WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Cheryl Gay WilsonPublisher Cheryl Gay WilsonWeight(grams) 145g

From legal expert and veteran author Bryan Garner comes a unique, intimate, and compelling memoir of his friendship with the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. For almost thirty years, Antonin Scalia was arguably the most influential and...

Judge Anthony Alaimo's life is a metaphor for quintessential American values: courage, hard work, patriotism, compassion. This biography does not dwell in the realm of metaphorical; it plunges us into the day-to-day life of an immigrant family struggling...

Through a life that spanned every decade of the twentieth century, Supreme Court advocate Bessie Margolin shaped modern American labor policy while creating a place for female lawyers in the nation's highest courts. Despite her beginnings in an orphanage...

Elite, personable, and persuasive, Edward Douglass White, a ''large and bearish man from Louisiana,'' served on the United States Supreme Court for twenty-seven years. During his tenure, first as an associate justice (1894-1910) and then as the ninth...

Early in his judicial career, U.S. District Judge Warren K. Urbom was assigned a yearlong string of criminal trials arising from a seventy-one-day armed standoff between the American Indian Movement and federal law enforcement at Wounded Knee, South...

When attorney John Jay Cornelison severely beat Kentucky Superior Court judge Richard Reid in public on April 16, 1884, for allegedly injuring his< honor, the event became front-page news. Would Reid react as a Christian gentleman, a man of the law, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806149165Author Amina HassanFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams) 590g

Supreme Court advocate Bessie Margolin (1909-1996) molded modern American labor policy while creating a space for female lawyers in the nation's high courts. In this comprehensive biography, Marlene Trestman reveals the forces that shaped Margolin's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767916363Author Kevin MeridaFormat PaperbackPage Count 426Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692860496Author Sterling DanielsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Raised in the Game, LLCPublisher Raised in the Game, LLCWeight(grams) 386g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865345904Author Lois Gerber FrankeFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Sunstone PressPublisher Sunstone PressWeight(grams) 417g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578638089Author Clarencia Newsome ShadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint New Some Legacy Publishing LLCPublisher New Some Legacy Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984020454Author Sandra A. SimmsFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Pacific Raven PressPublisher Pacific Raven PressWeight(grams) 148g

During Justice Sonya SotomayorAEs recent confirmation hearings, the idea of /u201cbiography/u201d played a high-profile role in the debate. How much does a personAEs experience affect his or her judicial opinions? Should personal history be a key...

Appointed by Abraham Lincoln to the U.S. Supreme Court during the Civil War, Samuel Freeman Miller (1816-1890) served on the nation's highest tribunal for twenty-eight tumultuous years and holds a place in legal history as one of the Court's most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595170234Author Diane HollowayFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Authors Choice PressPublisher Authors Choice PressWeight(grams) 386g

The surprising life of Chief Justice John Marshall, who turned the Supreme Court into a bulwark against presidential and congressional tyranny and saved American democracyIn this startling biography, award-winning author Harlow Giles Unger reveals how...

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It was 1948 when Abner Mikva, fresh out of college, volunteered at the 8th Ward Democratic headquarters in Chicago. "Who sent you, kid?" the leery ward committeeman asked. "Nobody," Mikva said, and the man informed him, "We don't...

As the most learned and eminent public lawyer in Germany, a busy administrator, and a prolific writer, Moser (1701-85) lived and breathed the political order. His correspondence, memoranda, and manuscript autobiography reflect the intricate day-to-day...

The papers of Chief Justice Walter Clark of North Carolina cover some of the most explosive decades in American life. It was a period of great expansion, corruption, power aggregations of wealth, indifference to the general welfare, and a slow awakening...

In this life of Walter Clark, the author tells of an antebellum boyhood on a Carolina plantation and a long career of involvement in the bitterest sociopolitical battles the state of North Carolina has known, which won Clark a national reputation as a...

A major figure in American legal history during the first half of the twentieth century, Felix Solomon Cohen (1907-1953) is best known for his realist view of the law and his efforts to grant Native Americans more control over their own cultural,...

The Kentucky-born son of a Baptist preacher, with an early tendency toward racial prejudice, Supreme Court Justice Wiley Rutledge (1894-1949) became one of the Court's leading liberal activists and an early supporter of racial equality, free speech, and...