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Make It Plain: Standing Up and Speaking Out»rank: 6360by: Jr., Vernon Jordan
: :Black Americans have always relied on the oral tradition—storytelling, preaching, and speechmaking—to assert their rights and preserve and pass on their history and culture. ln the pulpit, courtroom, or cotton field, they have understood the power of words, distinctively delivered, to educate and inspire. Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., one of the nation’s finest speakers, imbibed this tradition as a young man and has given it his own unique inflection from his work on the civil rights front lines, to the ... |
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My Grandfather's Son: A Memoir»rank: 14558by: Clarence Thomas
: :Provocative, inspiring, and unflinchingly honest, My Grandfather's Son is the story of one of America's most remarkable and controversial leaders, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, told in his own words. Thomas speaks out, revealing the pieces of his life he holds dear, detailing the suffering and injustices he has overcome, including the acrimonious and polarizing Senate hearing involving a former aide, Anita Hill, and the depression and despair it created in his own life and the lives of those closest ... |
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Don't Pee on My Leg and Tell Me It's Raining: America's Toughest Family Court Judge Speaks Out»rank: 2876by: Judy Sheindlin
: :¡n we get some reality in here?ߡsks Judy Sheindlin, former supervising judge for Manhattan Family Court. For twenty–four years she has laid down the law as she understands it: ● lf you want to eat, you have to work. ● lf you have children, you'd better support them. lf you break the law, you have to pay. lf you tap the public purse, you'd better be accountable. Now she abandons all judicial restraint in a scathing critique of the system ... |
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Happy Hour Is for Amateurs: A Lost Decade in the World's Worst Profession»rank: 4920by: Philadelphia Lawyer
: : For some people, happy hour is never enough This is a book about escape. lt's also about laughing gas. And bourbon and dope and sex and mushrooms and every other vice millions of us indulge in to forget our jobs, the office, and the stifling, corporate caricatures we're forced to become for paychecks. This is a book about a decade lost in a senseless career no one likes and all the ridiculous things l did to run from it. ... |
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Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History»rank: 4076by: Ted Sorensen
: : ln this gripping memoir, John F. Kennedy's closest advisor recounts in full for the first time his experience counseling Kennedy through the most dramatic moments in American history. Sorensen returns to January 1953, when he and the freshman senator from Massachusetts began their extraordinary professional and personal relationship. Rising from legislative assistant to speechwriter and advisor, the young lawyer from Nebraska worked closely with JFK on his most important speeches, as well as his book Profiles in Courage. Sorensen ... |
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A Piece of Cake: A Memoir»rank: 8948by: Cupcake Brown
: :There are shelves of memoirs about overcoming the death of a parent, childhood abuse, rape, drug addiction, miscarriage, alcoholism, hustling, gangbanging, near-death injuries, drug dealing, prostitution, or homelessness.Cupcake Brown survived all these things before she’d even turned twenty. And that’s when things got interesting….You have in your hands the strange, heart-wrenching, and exhilarating tale of a woman named Cupcake. lt begins as the story of a girl orphaned twice over, once by the death of her mother and then again ... |
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One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School»rank: 5116by: Scott Turow
: :Memoirs adapted from the author's diary chronicle his emotionally and intellectually challenging first year in law school and records the fierce and sometimes hysterical competition that is faced by Harvard Law School students. Reprint. Tour. NYT. ' |
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Mindhunter: Inside the Fbi's Elite Serial Crime Unit»rank: 231680by: John E. Douglas
: :The inspiration for Special Agent Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs and head of the FBl's investigative unit that deals with serial killers demonstrates his celebrated talent for getting inside their minds. 200,000 first printing. Tour. Review:Mindhunter enters the minds of some of the country's most notorious serial killers to tell the real-life story of the lnvestigative Support Unit (lSU) -- the FBl's special force that has assisted state and local police in cracking some of the ... |
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Campaign Boot Camp: Basic Training for Future Leaders»rank: 16510by: Christine Pelosi
: :The daughter of Nancy Pelosi, the nations first female Speaker of the House, offers a guidebook for citizens wanting to enter public service and become involved in their communities, whether through working with nonprofit agencies or seeking election to office. |
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Philadelphia Freedom: Memoir of a Civil Rights Lawyer»rank: 46860by: David Kairys
: :'David Kairys is one of the grand long-distance runners in the struggle for justice in America. His brilliant legal mind and superb lawyerly skills are legendary. This marvelous book is his gift to us!'---Cornel West, Professor of Religion and African American Studies, Princeton University, and award-winning author of Race MattersPhiladelphia Freedom is the spellbinding tale of an idealistic young lawyer coming of age in the political cauldron of the 1960s and 1970s. From his immersion in the civil rights movement ... |
