{"id":50455,"date":"2016-09-30T11:27:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T16:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.findlaw-admin.com\/ability-legal\/supreme\/legal-commentary\/book-reviews-by-title-7.html"},"modified":"2016-09-30T11:27:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T16:27:00","slug":"book-reviews-by-title-7","status":"publish","type":"supreme","link":"https:\/\/supreme.findlaw.com\/legal-commentary\/book-reviews-by-title-7.html","title":{"rendered":"Book Reviews By Title"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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JULIE HILDEN<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
NINE MUST-READ LEGAL BOOKS AND ONE ESSENTIAL LEGAL BLOG <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n \nFindLaw book reviewer, attorney and author Julie Hilden recommends and \ndescribes nine books on or related to the law, as well as a particularly \ninteresting legal blog. Hilden eschews classics like Democracy and Distrust \nin favor of some less-noted but valuable works, and some she believes are \nmore contemporary, or more visionary.\n\n\n<\/span>
\n\nFriday, Sep. 13, 2002<\/span>
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MATTHEW HERRINGTON<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
REMEMBERING THE FIRST AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS STRUGGLE, LONG BEFORE THE SIXTIES:
A REVIEW OF A NEW BOOK OF IMAGES OF THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n \nMany of us know the phrase “the Scottsboro Boys,” but not their full story — \nand few of us recall the civil rights struggle of the 30’s as clearly as we \ndo that of the 60’s. FindLaw book reviewer and attorney Matthew Herrington \nattempts to remedy that — telling the Boys’ story as he reviews a \nnewly-unearthed and published collection of 1935 artwork\/propaganda \nconcerning their trials and appeals, and the civil rights struggle in which \nthey were enmeshed.\n\n\n<\/span>
\n\nFriday, Sep. 06, 2002<\/span>
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RODGER CITRON<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
BACKSTORY:
A REVIEW OF JOSEPH RUSSOMANNO’S RECENT BOOK ON THE PEOPLE AND EVENTS BEHIND TEN IMPORTANT FIRST AMENDMENT CASES<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n FindLaw book reviewer and attorney Rodger Citron reviews Speaking Our Minds, \na book by Professor Joseph Russomanno that seeks to provide the human story, \nin the form of an oral history, behind ten historic First Amendment cases. \nThe book covers cases involving issues ranging from press freedoms to hate \nspeech, and from Internet “indecency” to parody. Citron finds it insightful \nbut incomplete, for reasons he explains in the review.\n\n\n<\/span>
\n\nFriday, Aug. 30, 2002<\/span>
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SAM WILLIAMSON<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
THE BIRTH OF A LEGAL LE CARRE?:
A REVIEW OF YALE LAW PROFESSOR STEPHEN CARTER’S \n\n THE EMPEROR OF OCEAN PARK<\/u><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n FindLaw book reviewer and attorney Sam Williamson renders his verdict as to whether lawyers — and readers in general — are likely to enjoy Yale Law professor Stephen Carter’s recent thriller. The book’s hero is a law professor whose father, a judge, has just died and who must find out who is responsible for his death, but the book, as Williamson notes, is far more than just a “whodunnit.” Williamson explains why he believes Carter is more like Le Carre than Grisham — and contends that Carter and Grisham could learn a great deal from each other.\n\n\n<\/span>
\n\nFriday, Aug. 23, 2002<\/span>
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ADAM FREEDMAN<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MILOSEVIC IN THE DOCK:
A REVIEW OF THE NEW GUIDEBOOK FOR \n\n THE WAR CRIMES TRIAL OF SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n \nFindLaw book reviewer, attorney and author Adam Freedman discusses a new companion guide to the trial of Slobodan Milosevic before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. The guidebook, authored by law professors Michael P. Scharf and William A. Schabas, aims to provide historical and legal context for the Tribunal’s proceedings. Freedman discusses the book’s merits and flaws, as well as the obstacles Milosevic’s prosecutors will face, the lack of U.N. General Assembly authorization for the tribunal, and the troubling consequences of head-of-state war crimes prosecutions.\n\n\n<\/span>
\n\nFriday, Aug. 16, 2002<\/span>
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MARK S. ZAID<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HOW THE FBI CREATED A CULTURE OF LAWLESSNESS:
A REVIEW OF ATHAN THEOHARIS’S CHASING SPIES<\/u><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n \nAttorney and national security law expert Mark Zaid reviews a new book, based on recently-revealed documents, that recounts the FBI’s counterintelligence efforts against the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War. The book, by Marquette professor Athan Theoharis, helps to answer fascinating and key questions such as: What did the long-secret Venona Project do, specifically? Did Joseph McCarthy’s claims of Communist infiltration of the U.S. have a kernel of truth? What were the specific illegal activities in which Hoover’s FBI engaged, and which prosecutions were made impossible because they would have revealed these activities? Was Ethel Rosenberg guilty of conspiracy, or was she only an accessory? Theoharis’s book offers evidence on all these issues, and Zaid comments on what it may mean.\n\n\n<\/span>
\n\nFriday, Aug. 09, 2002<\/span>
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JOANNA GROSSMAN<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
THE DARK SIDE OF ANNULMENT:
HOW A DIVORCE ALTERNATIVE BECAME THE CENTER OF A LANDMARK TRIAL EARLY IN OUR HISTORY<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\nFindLaw columnist and Hofstra law professor Joanna Grossman discusses a fascinating trial that rivals O.J. Simpson’s for the title of trial of the century. The 1924 case is chronicled in the recent book by Earl Lewis and Heidi Ardizzone, Love on Trial: An American Scandal in Black and White. As Grossman explains, in the trial a wealthy white man tried to annul his marriage based on his claim that his wife had concealed her race from him prior to their marriage — leading to surprising evidence being put forward by both sides. Grossman explains the wife’s trial strategy, and contrasts annulments then and now.\n\n<\/span>
\nMonday, Aug. 05, 2002<\/span>
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LAURA HODES<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
A GRIPPING TRIAL STORY MARRED BY TOO MUCH EXEGESIS:
THE FLAWS AND VIRTUES OF THOMAS GEOGHEGAN’S IN AMERICA’S COURT<\/u><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n \nFindLaw book reviewer, attorney and writer Laura Hodes discusses a veteran civil lawyer’s memoir of his first criminal trial — a felony murder case in Chicago. The account — a mix of ruminations and commentary on the law, and a narrative of the trial — gets mixed reviews from Hodes, who takes issue with how persuasive Geoghegan’s suggestions for the improvement of American law really are.\n\n\n<\/span>
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ROSS E. DAVIES<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
A FOUNDING FATHER WHO DESERVES SOME RENEWED APPRECIATION:
A REVIEW OF JAMES MONROE’S POLITICAL WRITINGS<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n \nFindLaw book reviewer, George Mason law professor, and Green Bag \neditor-in-chief Ross Davies evaluates a recent collection, edited by James P. \nLucier, of the political writings of underrated Founder James Monroe. It is \nthe first new treatment of those writings in 100 years. In the course of \nassessing the writings Lucier included and left out, Davies explains Monroe’s \nimportance — including the ways in which he risked his life and fortune for \nhis country — and his prescience in anticipating the British threat that \nimperiled even the White House (then called the President’s House).\n\n\n<\/span>
\n\nFriday, Jul. 26, 2002<\/span>
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MATTHEW HERRINGTON<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
A SECOND DRAFT OF HISTORY, RESULTING FROM NEW ANALYSIS AND LENGTHY INTERVIEWS WITH STARR:
A REVIEW OF BENJAMIN WITTES’S STARR: A REASSESSMENT<\/u><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n \nFindLaw book reviewer and attorney Matthew Herrington evaluates Washington Post writer Benjamin Wittes’s provocative recent book on Kenneth Starr’s tenure as Indepedent Counsel. Wittes, as Herrington explains, had the benefit of hours of interviews with Starr. Partially on that basis, Wittes offers novel and often contrarian explanations of, and arguments about, Starr’s motivations and behavior. Herrington weighs in on whether Wittes makes a convincing case for reassessing a widely-reviled figure. (An interview of Wittes can also be found on this site.<\/a>)\n\n\n<\/span>
\n\nFriday, Jul. 19, 2002<\/span>
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