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Liberty on Trial in America
- Cases that Defined Freedom
- By: Douglas O. Linder, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Douglas O. Linder
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
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You would think that when the United States of America was formed, our citizenry could finally enjoy a plethora of hard-won liberties. But that was not the case. While the new Americans no longer suffered from taxation without representation, many of the liberties we enjoy today were not part of their lives. In Liberty on Trial in America: Cases that Defined Freedom, you will learn how liberty increased in our country when individuals sued for those freedoms, when cases were brought specifically to test the limits of the Constitution with its Amendments....
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Professor Linder is thought provoking, always a good thing :-)
- By Deirdre E Siegel on 21-08-2021
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Liberty on Trial in America
- Cases that Defined Freedom
- Narrated by: Douglas O. Linder
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 07-01-2020
- Language: English
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The Rule of Laws
- A 4,000-Year Quest to Order the World
- By: Fernanda Pirie
- Narrated by: Ana Clements
- Length: 16 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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From ancient Mesopotamia to today, the epic story of how humans have used laws to forge civilizations Rulers throughout history have used laws to impose order. But laws were not simply instruments of power and social control. They also offered ordinary people a way to express their...
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The Rule of Laws
- A 4,000-Year Quest to Order the World
- Narrated by: Ana Clements
- Length: 16 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 11-11-2021
- Language: English
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Captain's Dinner
- A Shipwreck, An Act of Cannibalism, and a Murder Trial That Changed Legal History
- By: Adam Cohen
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
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A Barnes & Noble Best History Book of 2025 Four men in a lifeboat. Two weeks without food. One impossible choice that would reshape the boundaries between survival and murder. “A perfect enunciation of the classic philosophical conundrum: can you sacrifice one innocent life to save many?"...
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Captain's Dinner
- A Shipwreck, An Act of Cannibalism, and a Murder Trial That Changed Legal History
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 18-11-2025
- Language: English
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The Containment
- Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North
- By: Michelle Adams
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 16 hrs and 16 mins
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“Janina Edwards narrates in a compelling tone, a vivid style, and a clear sense of the importance of this action.”—AudioFile The epic story of Detroit's struggle to integrate schools in its suburbs—and the defeat of desegregation in the North. In 1974, the Supreme Court issued a...
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The Containment
- Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 16 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 14-01-2025
- Language: English
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Law of the Jungle
- The $19 Billion Legal Battle Over Oil in the Rain Forest and the Lawyer Who'd Stop at Nothing to Win
- By: Paul M. Barrett
- Narrated by: Joe Ochman
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
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The gripping story of one American lawyer’s obsessive crusade—waged at any cost—against Big Oil on behalf of the poor farmers and indigenous tribes of the Amazon rainforest. Steven Donziger, a self-styled social activist and Harvard educated lawyer, signed on to a budding class action...
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Law of the Jungle
- The $19 Billion Legal Battle Over Oil in the Rain Forest and the Lawyer Who'd Stop at Nothing to Win
- Narrated by: Joe Ochman
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 23-09-2014
- Language: English
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20 First Legislative Acts of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution
- By: Vladimir Lenin
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
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Decrees were legislative acts of the highest Soviet institutions, primarily of the Council of People's Commissars (the highest executive body — Sovnarkom) and of VTsIK (the highest legislative body between sessions of the Congress of Soviets). The Bolshevik Initial Decrees were announced as soon as the Bolsheviks declared their success in the October Revolution (October 26, 1917). The Decrees seemed to conform to the popular Bolshevik slogan "Peace, Land and Bread". The slogan succinctly articulated the grievances of the Russian peasantry, armed forces and proletariat.
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20 First Legislative Acts of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
- Release date: 15-01-2024
- Language: English
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The Ecology of Law
- Toward a Legal System in Tune with Nature and Community
- By: Fritjof Capra, Ugo Mattei
- Narrated by: Jeff Hoyt
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
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This is the first book to trace the fascinating parallel history of law and science from antiquity to modern times, showing how the two disciplines have always influenced each other - until recently. In the past few years, the scientific paradigm has shifted dramatically, from seeing the natural world as a kind of cosmic machine to understanding it as a network of fluidly interacting communities. But law is stuck in a mechanistic, 17th-century view that the world is made up of discrete individual parts.
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The Ecology of Law
- Toward a Legal System in Tune with Nature and Community
- Narrated by: Jeff Hoyt
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 21-09-2015
- Language: English
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First
- Sandra Day O'Connor
- By: Evan Thomas
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The intimate, inspiring, and authoritative biography of Sandra Day O’Connor, America’s first female Supreme Court justice, drawing on exclusive interviews and first-time access to Justice O’Connor’s archives—as seen on PBS’s American Experience...
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First
- Sandra Day O'Connor
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 19-03-2019
- Language: English
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The Nonsense Factory
- The Making and Breaking of the American Legal System
- By: Bruce Cannon Gibney
- Narrated by: Matt Kugler
- Length: 17 hrs and 10 mins
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A withering and witty examination of how the American legal system, burdened by complexity and untrammeled growth, fails Americans and threatens the rule of law itself, by the acclaimed author of A Generation of Sociopaths. Our trial courts conduct hardly any trials, our correctional systems do...
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The Nonsense Factory
- The Making and Breaking of the American Legal System
- Narrated by: Matt Kugler
- Length: 17 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 14-05-2019
- Language: English
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The Execution of Willie Francis
- Race, Murder, and the Search for Justice in the American South
- By: Gilbert King
- Narrated by: Korey Jackson
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
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On May 3, 1946, in St. Martinsville, Louisiana, a 17-year-old Black boy was scheduled for execution by electric chair. Willie Francis had been charged with murder; his trial had been brief; his death sentence never in doubt. When the executioners flipped the switch, Willie screamed and writhed as electricity coursed through his body. But Willie Francis did not die. Having miraculously survived, Willie was informed that the state would attempt to execute him a second time within a week.
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The Execution of Willie Francis
- Race, Murder, and the Search for Justice in the American South
- Narrated by: Korey Jackson
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 01-08-2023
- Language: English
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The People's Justice
- Clarence Thomas and the Constitutional Stories That Define Him
- By: Amul Thapar
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
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No Supreme Court justice has come from humbler circumstances than Clarence Thomas, yet critics denounce him as the "cruelest justice," a heartless traitor to his race who cynically sacrifices justice to ideology. In this provocative new book, Judge Amul Thapar demolishes that caricature. Exploring the human stories behind twelve illustrative cases on which Justice Thomas has ruled, he demonstrates the coherence of Thomas’s judicial philosophy and the profound humanity on which it rests.
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The People's Justice
- Clarence Thomas and the Constitutional Stories That Define Him
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 20-06-2023
- Language: English
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Course Correction
- A Story of Rowing and Resilience in the Wake of Title IX
- By: Ginny Gilder
- Narrated by: Janis Ian
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
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From her first strokes as a novice, Ginny Gilder found herself in a new world, training with Olympic rowers and participating in the famous Title IX naked protest, which helped define the movement for equality in college sports. Short, asthmatic, and stubborn, Gilder made the team against all odds and for the next 10 years devoted herself to answering a seemingly simple question: how badly do you want to go fast?
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Course Correction
- A Story of Rowing and Resilience in the Wake of Title IX
- Narrated by: Janis Ian
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 20-06-2016
- Language: English
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Fundamental Cases
- The Twentieth-Century Courtroom Battles That Changed Our Nation - The Modern Scholar
- By: Alan M. Dershowitz
- Narrated by: Alan M. Dershowitz
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
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It was Alexis de Tocqueville who, when he visited the new republic for the first time, said that America was a unique country when it comes to law. Every great issue eventually comes before the courts. With this in mind, esteemed professor and civil liberties lawyer Alan Dershowitz looks at history through the prism of the trial, which presents a snapshot of what's going on in a particular point in time of the nation's history.
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Fundamental Cases
- The Twentieth-Century Courtroom Battles That Changed Our Nation - The Modern Scholar
- Narrated by: Alan M. Dershowitz
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 18-08-2008
- Language: English
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Operation Greylord
- The True Story of an Untrained Undercover Agent and America's Biggest Corruption Bust
- By: Terrence Hake, Wayne Klatt
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
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Operation Greylord was the longest and most successful undercover investigation in FBI history, and the largest corruption bust ever in the US. It resulted in bribery and tax charges against 103 judges, lawyers, and other court personnel, and, eventually, more than 70 indictments. And it was led by Terrence Hake, a young assistant prosecutor in the Cook County State's Attorney's Office in Chicago, who worked undercover for nearly four years.
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intriguing true story
- By Anonymous on 15-10-2023
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Operation Greylord
- The True Story of an Untrained Undercover Agent and America's Biggest Corruption Bust
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 07-08-2015
- Language: English
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The Case of the Autographed Corpse
- A Medicine Man and a Mystery Writer in Pursuit of Justice
- By: Jack El-Hai
- Length: Not Yet Known
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Silas John Edwards—a charismatic Apache medicine man—was known as a controversial figure on Apache reservations in Arizona and New Mexico, where white authorities were determined to maintain control over reservation life. When his wife, Margaret, was brutally murdered in 1933, Silas John was tried and convicted, receiving a sentence of life in prison. The key piece of evidence against Silas John was a rock found near Margaret's body, scratched with his initials, “S. J. E."
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The Case of the Autographed Corpse
- A Medicine Man and a Mystery Writer in Pursuit of Justice
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 06-10-2026
- Language: English
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The Unfinished Agenda of Brown v. Board of Education
- Landmarks in Civil Rights History
- By: James Anderson, Dara N. Byrne
- Narrated by: Alex Gage's voice replica
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
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My father, Oliver L. Brown, for whom Brown v. Board of Education is named, was a proud member of a group of a few hundred people, across the country, who took risks by taking a stand for what they believed. He died in 1961, just seven years after the case, so he didn't live long enough to know that Brown would become the foundation on which so much of this country's civil and human rights initiatives would rest. Brown v. Board became important for every citizen, not just African Americans.
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The Unfinished Agenda of Brown v. Board of Education
- Landmarks in Civil Rights History
- Narrated by: Alex Gage's voice replica
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 02-04-2026
- Language: English
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Three Strand Pearl Necklace; The Divorce of the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, Edinburgh 1963
- Four Scots Trials, Book 1
- By: A. M. Nicol
- Narrated by: Donald R Findlay QC
- Length: 2 hrs and 17 mins
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The divorce proof which shocked Britain in the so-called "Swinging '60s" when the 11th Duke of Argyll divorced his second wife Margaret amidst enough dirty linen to give the "investigative journalists" of the time enough copy to last for decades. The Duchess was the Paris Hilton of her time but in a more judgmental age. She paid the price financially then socially when His Grace produced the infamous "headless man" Polaroids at the divorce proof, ensuring her eternal ridicule and sparking off a debate about the link between morality and national decline.
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Three Strand Pearl Necklace; The Divorce of the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, Edinburgh 1963
- Four Scots Trials, Book 1
- Narrated by: Donald R Findlay QC
- Series: Four Scots Trials, Book 1
- Length: 2 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 15-05-2019
- Language: English
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Blood & Ivy
- By: Paul Collins
- Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
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On November 23, 1849, in the heart of Boston, one of the city's richest men vanished. Dr. George Parkman, a Brahmin who owned much of Boston's West End, was last seen that afternoon visiting his alma mater, Harvard Medical School. Police scoured city tenements and the harbor - some leads put Parkman at sea or in Manhattan - but a Harvard janitor held a much darker suspicion: that their ruthless benefactor had never even left the Medical School building. His shocking discovery engulfed America in one of its most infamous trials.
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Blood & Ivy
- Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 17-07-2018
- Language: English
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The Witness House
- Nazis and Holocaust Survivors Sharing a Villa during the Nuremberg Trials
- By: Christiane Kohl
- Narrated by: Kathleen Godwin
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
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Autumn 1945 saw the start of the Nuremberg trials, in which high ranking representatives of the Nazi government were called to account for their war crimes. In a curious yet fascinating twist, witnesses for the prosecution and the defense were housed together in a villa on the outskirts of town. The Witness House reveals the social structures that allowed a cruel and unjust regime to flourish and serves as a symbol of the blurred boundaries between accuser and accused that would come to form the basis of postwar Germany.
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The Witness House
- Nazis and Holocaust Survivors Sharing a Villa during the Nuremberg Trials
- Narrated by: Kathleen Godwin
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 19-03-2014
- Language: English
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Anatomy of Injustice
- A Murder Case Gone Wrong
- By: Raymond Bonner
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
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In January 1982, an elderly white widow was found brutally murdered in the small town of Greenwood, South Carolina. Police immediately arrested Edward Lee Elmore, a semiliterate, mentally retarded black man with no previous felony record. His only connection to the victim was having cleaned her gutters and windows, but barely ninety days after the victim’s body was found, he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. Elmore had been on death row for eleven years when a young attorney named Diana Holt first learned of his case.
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- By Louise on 12-10-2014
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Anatomy of Injustice
- A Murder Case Gone Wrong
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 21-02-2012
- Language: English
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