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  • THE PIG FARMER'S DAUGHTER AND OTHER TALES OF AMERICAN JUSTICE: Episodes of Racism and Sexism in the Courts from 1865 to the Present. by Berry, Mary Frances.
    Berry, Mary Frances.
    THE PIG FARMER'S DAUGHTER AND OTHER TALES OF AMERICAN JUSTICE: Episodes of Racism and Sexism in the Courts from 1865 to the Present.

    Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.

    New York: Vintage Books, (2000). A book on how the law perpetuates myths of race, gender, and class by a former head of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. Berry examines "a century's worth of appellate cases, ranging from a nineteenth-century Alabama case in which a white woman was denied her divorce petition because an affair between a white man (her husband) and a black woman (his lover) was 'of no consequence,' to such recent, high-profile cases as the William Kennedy Smith and O.J. Simpson trials." Notes, index. 295 pp. ISBN: 0-375707468.

    Condition: Fine.

    Book ID: 83153
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  • INTERCEPTED: The Rise and Fall of NFL Cornerback Darryl Henley. by McKnight, Michael.
    McKnight, Michael.
    INTERCEPTED: The Rise and Fall of NFL Cornerback Darryl Henley.

    Edition: First printing.

    Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Raised by supportive parents, and educated at a boys-only parochial school, Darryl Henley had it all. He earned a history degree from UCLA, became a first-team All American for the Bruins in 1988, and was a rising star as the starting cornerback for the LA Rams in the early nineties. . . The product of eight years of investigative research and over one hundred interviews, [this] takes us into Henleys fourth season in the NFL, when he met Rams cheerleader Tracy Donaho and bumped into a boyhood friend named Willie McGowan, a onetime youth-league standout who had since turned to drug trafficking. . . Detailing how one of…

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    Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Raised by supportive parents, and educated at a boys-only parochial school, Darryl Henley had it all. He earned a history degree from UCLA, became a first-team All American for the Bruins in 1988, and was a rising star as the starting cornerback for the LA Rams in the early nineties. . . The product of eight years of investigative research and over one hundred interviews, [this] takes us into Henleys fourth season in the NFL, when he met Rams cheerleader Tracy Donaho and bumped into a boyhood friend named Willie McGowan, a onetime youth-league standout who had since turned to drug trafficking. . . Detailing how one of the best and brightest of our professional athletes destroyed himself through temptation, arrogance, and anger at a justice system that he felt had failed him, [this] is also a cautionary tale about American culture." Map, photographs, notes. 511 pp. ISBN: 978-0803238497.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 79387
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  • LET JUSTICE BE DONE: Crime and Politics in Early San Francisco. by Mullen, Kevin J.
    Mullen, Kevin J.
    LET JUSTICE BE DONE: Crime and Politics in Early San Francisco.

    Edition: First edition.

    Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Nevada Studies in History and Political Science No. 28. The first study of the establishment and development of San Francisco's courts, police, and jails from the American conquest in 1846 through 1852, by a retired San Francisco police officer. Mullen concludes that "the legends of raging violent crime in early San Francisco are overblown. " Illustrated with reproductions of early engravings and photographs. Appendix, notes, bibliography, index. xix, 313 pp. ISBN: 0-87417-1466.

    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 52714
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  • A SUDDEN FEARFUL DEATH. by Perry, Anne.
    Perry, Anne.
    A SUDDEN FEARFUL DEATH.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Fawcett Columbine, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 4th Victorian mystery featuring William Monk, now a private enquiry agent and nurse Hester Latterly - a story involving the brutal murder in a London hospital of a young woman who had been one of Florence Nightingale's nurses in the Crimean War. SIGNED on title page by the author. 383 pp. ISBN: 0-449-90637x.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 84971
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  • 25 TO LIFE: The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth. by Snyder, Leslie Crocker with Tom Shachtman.
    Snyder, Leslie Crocker with Tom Shachtman.
    25 TO LIFE: The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Warner, (2002). First edition - The true stories of a Manhattan Supreme Court Justice judge and her account of years on the bench, behind the courtroom trials, and how her rulings have placed a permanent stamp on the legal system. 338 pp.

    Condition: Very near fine in glossy wrappers.

    Book ID: 61285
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