epub |eng | | Author:Chen Guangcheng

CHAPTER EIGHT Kidnapped As we sped away from Beijing, I heard my captors talking among themselves and gathered that we were heading to Tianjin, about eighty miles southeast of the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2008-09-29 | Author:Toobin, Jeffrey [Toobin, Jeffrey]

One Saturday in the spring of 1986, Justice Lewis Powell struck up an unusual conversation with one of his law clerks, Cabell Chinnis Jr., about Bowers v. Hardwick. As Chinnis ...

azw3 |eng | 2009-08-19 | Author:Sherdor, Tulku [Sherdor, Tulku]

Any illusion I had harbored about the prospect of ending my legal career on a quiet note, however, was shattered ridi-culously early one morning in the fall of 2004, when ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2014-10-21 | Author:Bryan Stevenson

I arrived at the courthouse early the next morning to visit Walter in his basement cell before the proceedings began. When I headed upstairs, I was confused to see a ...

epub |eng | | Author:Harlow Giles Unger [Unger, Harlow Giles]

The Philosophic Cock, by political cartoonist James Akin (1773–1846), shows President Thomas Jefferson as an admiring rooster and his slave Sally Hemings as the hen. The text in fine print ...

epub |eng | 2014-10-27 | Author:Christopher Andersen [Andersen, Christopher]

Jackie brought him up to be his own person, not part of the Kennedys’ tribal connection. —FRANK MANKIEWICZ, LONGTIME KENNEDY FAMILY FRIEND Jackie’s mothering of John was complex. She had ...

epub |eng | 2014-10-07 | Author:Joan Biskupic [Biskupic, Joan]

NINE The President’s Choice A few weeks after Barack Obama’s November 2008 presidential election, he huddled with legal advisers in his Chicago transition office to thrash out priorities. The Supreme ...

epub |eng | 2009-07-02 | Author:Gus Russo

Nonetheless, according to Andy Anderson, Korshak continued to pay homage to his original Chicago underworld patrons. "On Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, he'd have to go to Chicago to see ...

epub |eng | 2014-05-29 | Author:Olson, Theodore B.; Boies, David

Q: Well, sir, you know perfectly well that these are not sort of just hypothetical cases. Correct, sir? A: No, sir. Q: You don’t? You don’t? Like this example of ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-24 | Author:Karen Spears Zacharias

Chapter Twenty-Seven Sarah is angry with me. I knew she would be. That’s why I put off calling her and telling her about this book. I intended to sit down ...

epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2012-03-06 | Author:Gilbert King [King, Gilbert]

ON MARSHALL’S RETURN to the New York office after his travels in Tokyo and Korea, which had overextended his calendar and his energy, he resumed working with his New York ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-02-03 | Author:David R. Dow [Dow, David R.]

KATYA HAS A CHILDHOOD FRIEND who grew up to be an artist you’ve probably heard of. They’re like college roommates. They talk and text and e-mail every day. Sometimes I’m ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Eve LaPlante [LaPlante, Eve]

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epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Eve LaPlante [LaPlante, Eve]

Chapter Thirteen The Bitter Drop in This Cup I never began the year in a stranger place than this,” Louisa scribbled on the first page of her new journal on ...

epub |eng | | Author:Eve LaPlante

Chapter Thirteen The Bitter Drop in This Cup I never began the year in a stranger place than this,” Louisa scribbled on the first page of her new journal on ...