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[1961]
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In this electrifying bestseller, the shrewd and voluble trial lawyer Louis Nizer, who made a long career of representing famous people in famous cases, recounts some of his significant civil and criminal cases. Nizer rose to national fame with his real-life accounts of tension-filled courtrooms and the fervor of the advocate, and "My Life in Court" proved to be no exception: it rose to the top of the Times's best-seller list on its publication in...
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c2004
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Account of the fight by Native American lawyers (the Coyote Warriors of the title) to protect Indian rights. The story revolves around Martin Cross, who fought and lost a life-long campaign against a government project to build a dam on the Upper Missouri, which flooded Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara land.
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[2015]
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Hit the Target introduces readers to those who made the Eighth Air Force the formidable juggernaut it soon became. Men of all ranks, from General Tooey Spaatz, the hard driving founding commander, to Colonel Jimmy Doolittle, the hero who led the first air raid on Japan, to Maynard "Snuffy" Smith, the irascible first airman in Europe to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, and Robert Rosie Rosenthal, who survived his time with the "Bloody Hundredth,"...
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[1997]
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Highlights major milestones in the history of women's rights through an examination of 101 legal cases drawn from throughout the course of four centuries in America, discussing the events of each trial, its impact and historical significance, and the legal issues involved.
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[2021]
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On September 11, 2018, Navy SEAL Chief Edward Gallagher--a highly-decorated combat veteran with nine deployments to war zones in Africa, Afghanistan, and Iraq--was arrested for war crimes at the TBI medical clinic where he was receiving treatment. His incarceration was the culmination of a year-long whisper campaign started by a group of disgruntled members of his SEAL platoon after a successful deployment fighting ISIS in Mosul, Iraq. At the end...
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2011
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In season six, Ben Matlock, the legendary defense attorney, investigates a murder in his hometown, becomes the target of a serial strangler, and even considers giving up his practice! With loving support from his beautiful partner Michelle Thomas, investigator Conrad McMasters, and Assistant D.A. Julie March, Matlock always comes through and saves the day, with good old country know-how.