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		<title>One Nation Under Arrest: Over-criminalization in the USA</title>
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(Click on the book images for details via Amazon.com.)
The USA is the most punitive of all wealthy countries. One American adult in 100 is locked behind bars—that&#8217;s five times the incarceration rate in Britain, nine times the rate in Germany, and 12 times the rate in Japan. Unfortunately, higher incarceration rates do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedman-chicago.com/4yrp/law/?p=536</link>
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		<title>FDR&#8217;s Desperate Attempt to Pack the Supreme Court in 1937</title>
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Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court
By Jeff Shesol
W.W. Norton, 2010, 656 pages
$18.45 hardcover, $15.37 Kindle
In Franklin Roosevelt&#8217;s first term, which began in 1933 in the depths of the Great Depression, the Supreme Court struck down a series of his New Deal programs as unconstitutional. After his landslide re-election in 1937, FDR attempted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedman-chicago.com/4yrp/law/?p=495</link>
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		<title>Freedom of the Press, and the People Who Struggled to Preserve It for Everyone</title>
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Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment
By Anthony Lewis
Basic Books, 2010, 240 pages
$10.85 paperback, $9.77 Kindle
I don&#8217;t know if most Americans appreciate how extraordinary our right to a free press is. Our news media, publications, and written words of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedman-chicago.com/4yrp/law/?p=440</link>
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		<title>The First Jewish and Black Supreme Court Justices</title>
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Here are the definitive biographies of Justices Louis Brandeis and Thurgood Marshall. Both are inspiring. [Click on the book images for details or to purchase.]
Louis D. Brandeis: A Life
By Melvin Urofsky
Pantheon, 2009, 976 pages
$26.40 hardcover, $21.12 Kindle
Louis Brandeis was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1916 by President Wilson, and served until 1939. He [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedman-chicago.com/4yrp/law/?p=406</link>
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		<title>Justice at Guantanamo Bay: Defense and Prosecution Lawyers, and a National Security Expert, Tell Their Stories</title>
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The Guantanamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison Outside the Law
By Mark Denbeaux and Jonathan Hafetz
NYU Press, 2009, 448 pages
$21.75 hardcover, $14.30 Kindle
Denbeaux and Hafetz, who represented some of the detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, rely on government data and court testimony, as well as interviews with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedman-chicago.com/4yrp/law/?p=389</link>
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		<title>The Brutal History of the American Mafia</title>
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The First Family: Terror, Extortion, Revenge, Murder, and the Birth of the American Mafia
By Mike Dash
Random House, 2009, 416 pages
$17.82 hardcover, $9.99 Kindle
Giuseppe Morello arrived in the USA from Corleone, Sicily, in 1892, and resumed a successful counterfeiting operation that his family had begun in Italy. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedman-chicago.com/4yrp/law/?p=368</link>
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		<title>The Amistad Slave Revolt of 1839, and the U.S. Supreme Court Murder-Piracy Trial</title>
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The prosecution of African slaves for murder and piracy aboard an illegal Spanish slave ship off the coast of Cuba, and their dramatic acquittal at the U.S. Supreme Court in 1841, was all but forgotten until Steven Spielberg&#8217;s film &#8220;Amistad&#8221; refreshed our memory. The movie was based primarily on a 1987 book by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedman-chicago.com/4yrp/law/?p=340</link>
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		<title>Presidential Power &amp; Constitutional Law in the War on Terror</title>
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Here are two books in defense of, and two critical of, the Bush Administration&#8217;s expansion of executive power from 9/11/01 through 2008.
Not a Suicide Pact: The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency 
By Richard A. Posner
Oxford University Press, 2006, 208 pages
$23.96 hardcover, $9.99 Kindle
Posner, a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedman-chicago.com/4yrp/law/?p=313</link>
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		<title>Los Angeles Noir: 1930 to 1965</title>
		<description><![CDATA[L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America&#8217;s Most Seductive City
By John Buntin
Harmony, 2009, 432 pages
$17.16 hardcover, $9.99 Kindle
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Buntin&#8217;s book is a dual biography that weaves together the careers of (a) ruthless and flamboyant mobster Meyer Harris &#8220;Mickey&#8221; Cohen, and (b) uncorruptible but racist L.A. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedman-chicago.com/4yrp/law/?p=283</link>
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		<title>Nuremberg &#8212; &#8216;The Greatest Trial in History&#8217;</title>
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The 1945-46 Nuremberg trial of Nazi leaders for crimes against humanity was the first international criminal tribunal, and the foundation of international justice and human rights policies. Following are reviews of three books and three DVDs. (Click on the book or DVD images for details, or to purchase.)
Justice at Nuremberg
By Robert E. Conot
Basic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freedman-chicago.com/4yrp/law/?p=261</link>
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