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Abanes, Richard American Militias: Rebellion, Racism & Religion
Downer's Grove, Illinois Intervarsity Press 1996 0830813683 / 9780830813681 Trade Paperback Fine No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
After the Oklahoma City bombing, Americans became aware of the alarming growth of paramilitary groups over the previous several years. This ominous development has arisen from a volatile mixture of frustration with the government and deep-seated religious beliefs that are primarily apocalyptic. The zeal, unity, plans, and, in many cases, the hatred and paranoia exhibited by those involved with such groups are fueled by the sense that we are near the end of the world. The racist attitudes common among paramilitary organizations are also too often rooted in religious ideas. Understanding the beliefs of militant extremists as we approach the year 2000 - a crucial turning point for many paramilitaries - is critical if social disruption and perhaps even violent confrontations are to be avoided. American Militias seeks to inform the reader exactly what is being taught to, and believed by, hundreds of thousands of extremists. Thorough and balanced, it explains and refutes some of the complex and bizarre conspiracy theories they hold and suggests ways of defusing their sometimes dangerous zealotry.
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Abraham, Henry J. Freedom and the Court: Civil Rights and Liberties in the United States
Oxford University Press 1988 0195055160 / 9780195055160 Trade Paperback Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Very-good condition - 1 page has 1 tiny tear (outer margin) NO other tears - Tight spine - 587 pages - 10 pages have light writing - Does NOT interfere with reading - NO remainder marks or price clippings - Completely updated to incorporate the myriad changes in the Supreme Court over the last six years, this classic study reflects the impact of the Court's response to the ongoing egalitarian revolution and examines the evolving tiered standards of review under the "new" equal protection of the laws jurisprudence. Addressing major recent developments in the realm of due process, Abraham also considers the continuing emphasis on "incorporation" and "nationalization" of the Bill of Rights. The book includes an extended consideration of freedom of expression, a chapter on recent religious controversies, and detailed discussions of the affirmative action controversy and the debate over abortion.
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Abramowitz, Alan I.; Segal, Jeffrey A. Senate Elections
Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A. University of Michigan Press 1992 0472081926 / 9780472081929 Trade Paperback Very Good No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
No writing - No tears - Tight spine - Very-nice copy! - Why does the U.S. House of Representatives remain in Democratic hands regardless of the prevailing political climate, while the Senate shifts back and forth? Why are voters more likely to vote for House incumbents than Senate incumbents, regardless of partisanship? Alan I. Abramowitz and Jeffrey A. Segal present a compelling case that Senate elections have become much more competitive than House elections and thus the Senate has become more responsive to shifts in the national political climate than has the House. The authors employ sophisticated methods of analysis to evaluate the impact of such factors as the history of the form and function of the Senate; attitudes and behavior of voters in Senate elections; the state of the economy; the popularity of incumbent candidates; campaign spending; and television advertising. The authors show that the uncertain electoral environment faced by Senate candidates has contributed to a more consensual style of leadership and a relatively stronger sense of collective responsibility for policy outcomes. The book presents original research that explores issues central to the way the Senate functions and to its influence on the American political system. Senate Elections will be of special interest to those who study congressional elections and American politics.
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Abramson, Leslie; Flaste, Richard The Defense Is Ready: Life in the Trenches of Criminal Law
Simon & Schuster 1997 068481403X / 9780684814032 Hard Cover Fine Near-Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new copy - NO remainder marks or price clippings - Price inside dustcover: $25.00 - Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 - 315 pages - Illustrated with photos. Tight spine - Bright pages - NO writing, marks or tears inside book. - The Defense Is Ready is about the making of a passionately committed American defense lawyer who believes that everyone accused of a crime, no matter how heinous, is entitled to a vigorous defense of his rights against the overwhelming power of a frequently callous state. Leslie Abramson's journey from eager young law clerk to one of the nation's premier homicide attorneys involved some of the most difficult and notorious criminal cases of the last two decades. Among those she describes with a frank insider's eye are the Bob's Big Boy case, which involved the murders of employees and patrons during the robbery of a popular Los Angeles restaurant; the Chinatown trial in which defense sleuthing finally unraveled the mystery that surrounded the slaying of one police officer and the wounding of another by young Chinese gang members; and the startling acquittal she won for an immigrant Pakistani doctor accused of murdering and dismembering his own young son. Finally, Abramson describes the series of disturbing and thought-provoking trials in which she undertook the defense of battered wives and abused children ultimately driven to kill their tormentors. Most celebrated among these were the two death penalty murder trials in which she represented Erik Menendez, who, along with his brother, killed his parents after years of sexual and emotional abuse.
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Abramson, Leslie; Flaste, Richard The Defense Is Ready: Life in the Trenches of Criminal Law
Simon & Schuster 1997 068481403X / 9780684814032 Hard Cover Fine Near-Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new copy - NO remainder marks or price clippings - Price inside dustcover: $25.00 - Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 - 315 pages - Illustrated with photos. Tight spine - Bright pages - NO writing, marks or tears inside book. - The Defense Is Ready is about the making of a passionately committed American defense lawyer who believes that everyone accused of a crime, no matter how heinous, is entitled to a vigorous defense of his rights against the overwhelming power of a frequently callous state. Leslie Abramson's journey from eager young law clerk to one of the nation's premier homicide attorneys involved some of the most difficult and notorious criminal cases of the last two decades. Among those she describes with a frank insider's eye are the Bob's Big Boy case, which involved the murders of employees and patrons during the robbery of a popular Los Angeles restaurant; the Chinatown trial in which defense sleuthing finally unraveled the mystery that surrounded the slaying of one police officer and the wounding of another by young Chinese gang members; and the startling acquittal she won for an immigrant Pakistani doctor accused of murdering and dismembering his own young son. Finally, Abramson describes the series of disturbing and thought-provoking trials in which she undertook the defense of battered wives and abused children ultimately driven to kill their tormentors. Most celebrated among these were the two death penalty murder trials in which she represented Erik Menendez, who, along with his brother, killed his parents after years of sexual and emotional abuse.
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Abramson, Leslie; Flaste, Richard The Defense Is Ready: Life in the Trenches of Criminal Law
Simon & Schuster 1997 068481403X / 9780684814032 Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new copy - NO remainder marks or price clippings - Price inside dustcover: $25.00 - Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 - 315 pages - Illustrated with photos. Tight spine - Bright pages - NO writing, marks or tears inside book. - The Defense Is Ready is about the making of a passionately committed American defense lawyer who believes that everyone accused of a crime, no matter how heinous, is entitled to a vigorous defense of his rights against the overwhelming power of a frequently callous state. Leslie Abramson's journey from eager young law clerk to one of the nation's premier homicide attorneys involved some of the most difficult and notorious criminal cases of the last two decades. Among those she describes with a frank insider's eye are the Bob's Big Boy case, which involved the murders of employees and patrons during the robbery of a popular Los Angeles restaurant; the Chinatown trial in which defense sleuthing finally unraveled the mystery that surrounded the slaying of one police officer and the wounding of another by young Chinese gang members; and the startling acquittal she won for an immigrant Pakistani doctor accused of murdering and dismembering his own young son. Finally, Abramson describes the series of disturbing and thought-provoking trials in which she undertook the defense of battered wives and abused children ultimately driven to kill their tormentors. Most celebrated among these were the two death penalty murder trials in which she represented Erik Menendez, who, along with his brother, killed his parents after years of sexual and emotional abuse.
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Adams, Thomas F. Police Patrol: Tactics and Techniques
Prentice Hall 1971 0136846629 / 9780136846628 Hard Cover Near-Fine No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
A photo of this book is available. Near-fine condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Green boards with light-green boards (clean and bright). NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Illustrated throughout. 329 pages. Tight spine, clean pages. Author was Coordinator, Administration of Justice - Santa Ana College.
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Adams, Thomas Francis Police Field Operations
Prentice Hall 1994 0130574155 / 9780130574152 Hard Cover Very Good + No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
A photo of this book is available. Stated Third Edition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine, bright pages. NO tears inside book. 447 pages. Illustrated. Some removable page tabs along outside edges. 33 pages show light writing/highlighting. Does NOT interfere with reading. Synopsis: The industry standard for 21st-century policing, "Police Field Operations" is written from the perspective of a working police officer, presenting real-life scenarios an officer is likely to encounter while on-duty. With its focus on community policing, it describes how and why certain procedures are used, and gives informative techniques from leading police academies from around the country. Provides readers with the widest range of up-to-date information. Use-of-force issues - e.g., when and how much force to use under what circumstances. Provides clearly defined guidelines for shaping and enforcing policy. Officer Survival and Stress Reduction - Exceptionally complete coverage. Helps readers develop the necessary skills of observations, perceptions, interviewing techniques, and crowd and riot control. Great resource material for those involved in police patrol procedures and police and field operations. Booknews: A textbook for a course in the actual procedures police should and do use when in the field. They include patrol, basic procedures, observation and perception, communications, reporting and records, interviewing techniques, crimes in progress, unusual occurrences, traffic direction and enforcement, and stress survival and the use of force. First published in 1986 and most recently in 1994.
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Adler, Bill (Editor) Washington: A Reader
Meredith Press 1967 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new condition - NO remainder marks or price clippings - Stated First Edition - Price inside dustcover: $5.95 - 271 pages - NO writing, marks or tears - Tight spine - Bright pages.
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Adler, Stephen J. The Jury: Disorder in the Courts
New York, New York, U.S.A. Main Street Books / Doubleday 1995 0385479697 / 9780385479691 Trade Paperback Very Good + 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Very-good+, clean condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Covers are clean (NO tears). NO writing, marks or tears. 285 pages. Pages show tanning. Synopsis "Just in time to put the Simpson trial in perspective," wrote Time Magazine recently of The Jury. Indeed, America's inundation with high-profile cases, not just O.J. but the Menendez brothers, the Long Island Railroad gunman Colin Ferguson, and Court TV in general have made people intensely preoccupied with the jury system, while at the same time remarkably unknowledgeable. The Jury will change that. The Jury is a sobering look at the disarray of the current American jury system. Written in a straight-forward style, filled with ancedotes from the trials discussed, the book ends with a strong prescription for how to change and save the jury system in America. "This is the first book ever that explains how juries work in the real world, and Steve Adler does it in a way that actually makes it fun to read." Steven Brill, founder, Court TV and The American Lawyer magazine Annotation Using seven different trials as case studies, Adler examines how the high-minded ideals behind the jury system have been distorted by time and human error. The Jury is a sobering look at the disarray of the current American jury system, and ends with a strong prescription for how to change--and save--the jury system in America.
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Albright, Madeleine; Woodward, Bill Madam Secretary: A Memoir
Miramax Books / Hyperion 2003 1401359620 / 9781401359621 Trade Paperback Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new condition. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Tight spine, bright pages. Illustrated with photos. NO remainder marks or price clippings. 720 pages. - The New York Times best-selling memoir of former secretary of state now in paperback. In this outspoken and much-praised memoir, the highest-ranking woman in American history shares her remarkable story and provides an insider's view of world affairs during a period of unprecedented turbulence. A national bestseller on its first publication in 2003, Madam Secretary combines warm humor with profound insights and personal testament with fascinating additions to the historical record. Includes a new preface written especially for this edition. Madeleine Albright, born in Prague, was confirmed as the sixty-fourth secretary of state in 1997. Her distinguished career in government includes positions in the National Security Council, as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and on Capitol Hill. She lives in Washington, D.C., and Virginia.
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Alderman, Ellen; Kennedy, Caroline In Our Defense: The Bill of Rights in Action
William Morrow 1991 068807801x / 9780688078010 Hard Cover Fine Near-Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new condition - Dustcover shows minor wear (NO tears) - Book is in Fine Condition - Price inside dustcover: $22.95 - Illustrated with photos - 430 pages - NO remainder marks or price clippings - In Our Defense celebrates freedom and our basic rights from religious choice to trail by jury. Article by article, intention by intention, the first ten amendments are examined through cases that have challenged and been interpreted through them. Alderman and Kennedy, the daughter of the late President, both graduated, both graduated from Columbia University Law School. 15 photos.
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Alley, Robert S. So Help Me God: Religion and the Presidency: Wilson to Nixon
Richmond, Virginia John Knox Press 1972 0804210454 / 9780804210454 Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Very-good, clean ex-libris copy of this 1972 hardback. Usual library markings - Inner pages are free from writing and tears. 160 pages. Tight spine - Bright pages. Illustrated with cartoons. Price inside dustcover: $4.95. Apparent First Edition.
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Alterman, Eric Sound and Fury: The Washington Punditocracy and the Collapse of American Politics
HarperCollins 1992 0060168749 / 9780060168742 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new condition - NO remainder marks or price clippings - Stated First Edition - Price inside dustcover: $23.00 - 351 pages - NO writing, marks or tears inside book - Tight spine - Bright pages Never in our history has the American political system seemed so aimless, so irrelevant, and so downright disgraceful as it does today. Television has become dominant to the point that it now not only serves as the sole viable medium for the debate of issues but has also provided the fodder for political platforms, and even budding presidential candidates. "Objective" reporting in the print media is political double-speak, but, even more important, it deprives us of the context that would allow us to make an informed judgment about a given issue. What we are left with, simply, is the punditocracy: the highly visible, extremely well-paid, and seemingly omnipresent pontificators who make their living offering "inside political opinions and forecasts" in the elite national media. It is their debate, rather than any semblance of a democratic one, that determines the parameters of political discourse in the nation today. In his shrewd, provocative, and entertaining Sound and Fury, journalist and historian Eric Alterman takes the first comprehensive survey of the world of political pundits - their history, their influence, their style and substance. How have the George Wills, the John McLaughlins, the Robert Novaks, the William Safires, the Pat Buchanans, and all the op-ed and opinion makers whom we have come to regard as authoritative voices on the subject of government actually achieved their authority? How do they deploy their power? Who really listens to them, and what does their ascendancy mean for our political future? Sound and Fury opens with a historical overview of punditry, focusing on the greatest of all pundits, Walter Lippmann, avatar of punditry's Golden Age and as close to a philosopher as the popular media has ever produced. Tracing Lippmann's heirs, Alterman presents a series of portraits of the leading pundits of the Reagan/Bush years, a period when the profession came into its own - no more notably than in the person of the jaunty courtier George
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Alterman, Eric; Green, Mark The Book on Bush: How George W. (Mis)Leads America
New York, New York, U.S.A. Viking Press 2004 0670032735 / 9780670032730 Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Like-new condition. Appears unread. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $24.95. Tight spine, bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 419 pages. Synopsis When George W. Bush Became President in January 2001, he took office with a comfortably familiar surname, bipartisan rhetoric, and the promise of calming a public shaken by the convulsions of a contested election. Then, after the tragedy of 9/11, both the country and the world looked to him for leadership that could unite people behind great common goals. Instead, George W. Bush squandered the good will felt toward America, turned allies into adversaries, and ran what may well be the most radical and divisive administration in the history of the presidency. Carefully documented and with vivid detail, The Book on Bush traces the guiding ideology that runs through a wide range of W.'s policies. The Book on Bush is an invaluable resource that exposes plutocracy posing as patriotism and, in area after area, the encroachment of radical right-wing ideology onto a moderate country.
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Ambrose, Stephen E. Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938
Penguin Books 1985 0140212477 / 9780140212471 Trade Paperback Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Very-good condition. Stated Thurd Revised Edition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Covers show light wear (NO tears). NO tears inside book. 2 pages in book front show light writing. Does NOT interfere with reading. NO other writing inside book. Pages show tanning. 448 pages.
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Anonymous; Scheuer, Michael Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terrorism
Brassey's 2004 1574888498 / 9781574888492 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new condition. Stated First Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $27.50. ONLY writing/mark inside book is previous owner's signature in book front on blank page. 309 pages. NO tears inside book. Tight spine, bright pages. Synopsis The national bestseller that changed the debate about the War on Terror The New York Times - Michiko Kakutani Imperial Hubris, the scalding new book by a current Central Intelligence Agency officer who was able to publish the book on the condition that his real name not be revealed is an assessment of America's war on terror that is bound to provoke large heapings of controversy, on both the right and the left, among hardliners on Iraq and critics of the administration alike. Readers will doubtless contest some or many of the things Anonymous has to say, but he pulls few punches in this book and gives us a fascinating window on America's war with Al Qaeda at least as framed by one senior analyst, who seems to have put all bureaucratic niceties aside. Biography: Bestselling author Michael Scheuer is the former head of the CIA’s Bin Laden Unit and has two decades of experience in national security issues related to Afghanistan and South Asia. After resigning from the agency in November 2004, he revealed his authorship of Imperial Hubris (Brassey's, Inc., 2004) and Through Our Enemies' Eyes both originally published under the byline "Anonymous." Scheuer has been featured extensively on television, including 60 Minutes, and has been the focus of print media worldwide. He lives in the Washington, D.C., area.
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