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  Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela : With Connections (HRW library)

  by Nelson Mandela

  The best-selling memoirs, begun during the South African president's years in prison, traces the Nobel Prize-winner's historic life from his traditional tribal childhood to his triumphant rise to power. Reprint. NYT.
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  An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917 - 1963 (Dynasty S.)

  by Robert Dallek

  An Unfinished Life is the first major, single-volume life of John F. Kennedy to be written by a historian in nearly four decades. Drawing upon previously unavailable material and never-before-opened archives to tell Kennedy's story. We learn for the first time just how sick Kennedy was, what medications he took and concealed from all but a few, and how severely his medical condition affected his actions as... (more)
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  Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

  by Frederick Douglass

  Frederick Douglass (1817?-1895) was born into slavery by a slave mother and an unknown father. At the age of 8, he started to educate himself with the help of his master's wife. In 1838, he fled Baltimore for the North. There he soon became a noted author and speaker on slavery. Douglass wrote three autobiographies, "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" (1845), "My Bondage and My Freedom" (1855)... (more)
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  The Middle East

  by Bernard Lewis

  In a sweeping and vivid survey, renowned historian Bernard Lewis charts the history of the Middle East over the last 2,000 years, from the birth of Christianity through the modern era, focusing on the successive transformations that have shaped it. Elegantly sritten, scholarly yet accessible, The Middle East is the most comprehensive single volume history of the region ever written from the world's foremost... (more)
• John Peter Zenger: A Brief Narrative of the Case and Trial of John Peter ZengerJohn Peter Zenger

  

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  John Peter Zenger: A Brief Narrative of the Case and Trial of John Peter Zenger

  by John Peter Zenger

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  Making Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1956-1961

  by Mark V. Tushnet

  From the 1930s to the early 1960s civil rights law was made primarily through constitutional litigation. Before Rosa Parks could ignite a Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Supreme Court had to strike down the Alabama law which made segregated bus service required by law; before Martin Luther King could march on Selma to register voters, the Supreme Court had to find unconstitutional the Southern Democratic Party's... (more)
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  Conflict Resolution

  by Daniel Dana

  Successful management depends on the ability to quickly and effectively manage conflicts. Conflict Resolution includes hands-on information for effectively communicating with employees, disciplining and even terminating employees, understanding and using organizational politics, and more.
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  Success Without Victory: Lost Legal Battles and the Long Road to Justice in America: Lost Legal Battles and the Long Road to Justice in America (Critical America (New York University Paperback))

  by Jules Lobel

  Winners and losers. Success and failure. Victory and defeat. American culture places an extremely high premium on success, and firmly equates it with winning. In politics, sports, business, and the courtroom, we have a passion to win and are terrified of losing. Instead of viewing success and failure through such a rigid lens, Jules Lobel suggests that we move past the winner-take-all model and learn valuable... (more)
• Brown V. Board of Education: The Battle for Integration (Historic Supreme Court Cases)Mark V. Tushnet

  

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  Brown V. Board of Education: The Battle for Integration (Historic Supreme Court Cases)

  by Mark V. Tushnet

  Describes the people playing major roles in the battle for desegregation, the smaller court cases that led up to Brown v. The Board of Education, and the results and repercussions of the case.
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  Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality

  by Richard Kluger

  The Supreme Court decision of Brown vs. Board of Education that outlawed school segregation and culminated a century long social and legal struggle to establish black equality in the U.S.
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  Living Inside Our Hope: A Steadfast Radical's Thoughts on Rebuilding the Movement (ILR Press Books)

  by Staughton Lynd

  The photograph of three men spattered with red paint, their arms linked, marching to protest the Vietnam War, is an icon of the 1960s movement for social justice. David Dellinger is on one side, Robert Moses on the other. In the middle is Staughton Lynd, chairperson of the first march on Washington against the war, and former director of the Mississippi Freedom Schools. Thirty years later, Staughton Lynd here... (more)
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  James Madison on Religious Liberty

  by James Madison

  This long-overdue volume is the only one of its kind containing all of Madison's religious writings, as well as new contributions by leading scholars. Madison's writings assume even more importance to thoughtful Americans as the Supreme Court continues to decide issues of school prayer, and as the Moral Majority tries to desecularise American public and private life. Imagine an America without the Bill of Rights,... (more)
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  Women and the U.S. Constitution: History, Interpretation and Practice

  Women and the U.S. Constitution is about more than the nineteenth amendment. This provocative volume, among the first of its kind, incorporates law, history, political theory, and philosophy to analyze the U.S. Constitution as a whole in relation to the rights and fate of women. Divided into three parts-History, Interpretation, and Practice-this book views the U.S. Constitution as a living document, struggling to... (more)
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  Slave Rebels, Abolitionists, and Southern Courts: The Pamphlet Literature (Slavery, Race and the American Legal System, 1700-1872)

  by Paul Finkelman

  Finkelman, Paul, Editor. Slave Rebels, Abolitionists, and Southern Courts: The Pamphlet Literature. New York & London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1988. Two volumes. With a New Introduction by Paul Finkelman. Reprinted 2007 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-158477-744-1. ISBN-10: 1-58477-744-3. Cloth. * Reprinted from the Garland series: Slavery, Race, and the American Legal System,... (more)
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  Frederick Douglass on Women's Rights

  by Frederick Douglass

  In their long, continuing struggle for equality, American women have had to rely primarily on their own resources, which have been considerable. Yet many men have helped advance their cause. Perhaps foremost among them was the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass. According to the women of the time, Douglass was their preeminent male supporter. As Elizabeth Cady Stanton said, "He was the only man I ever saw who... (more)
• A letter from a Birmingham jailMartin Luther King

  

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  A letter from a Birmingham jail

  by Martin Luther King

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  Rebel Voices: An Iww Anthology

  Originally published in 1964 and long out of print, Kornbluh's Rebel Voices remains by far the biggest and best source on IWW history, fiction, songs, art and lore. Besides the full text and illustrations of the original, this new and expanded edition includes 32 pages of additional material: a new introduction and updated bibliography by old-time Wobbly organizer and scholar Fred Thompson; an informative essay on... (more)
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  The Essential Writings of Jawaharlal Nehru: Volumes II

  by Jawaharlal Nehru

  This anthology of Nehru's writings, edited by S. Gopal, is a comprehensive and first rate selection. It has been compiled mainly from his speeches and writings. The compilation indicates the evolution of his mind and personality and gives some idea of his enormous range of interests.
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  Rights Talk

  by Mary Ann Glendon

  Political speech in the United States is undergoing a crisis. Glendon's acclaimed book traces the evolution of the strident language of rights in America and shows how it has captured the nation's devotion to individualism and liberty, but omitted the American traditions of hospitality and care for the community.
• Four Women in a Violent Time: Anne Hutchinson (1591-1643, Mary Dyer)Deborah Crawford

  

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  Four Women in a Violent Time: Anne Hutchinson (1591-1643, Mary Dyer)

  by Deborah Crawford

  Traces the lives of four women who struggled for civil rights and justice in seventeenth-century America.