The Wrong Carlos: Anatomy of a Wrongful Execution, by James S. Liebman, Shawn Crowley, Andrew Markquart, Lauren Rosenberg, Lauren White, Daniel Zharkovsky Columbia University Press, 978-0231167239 Copyright July 2014, Paperback, 448 Pages Exceptionally tragic and heart-wrenching. This book comprehensively documents an extremely maddening and painful case of injustice as facilitated by a flawed criminal justice system. This progressively…
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REVIEW: “Mistrial: An Inside Look at How the Criminal Justice System Works…and Sometimes Doesn’t” by Mark Geragos, Pat Harris
Mistrial: An Inside Look at How the Criminal Justice System Works…and Sometimes Doesn’t, by Mark Geragos, Pat Harris Avery, 978-1592408443 Copyright October 2013, Paperback, 288 Pages An exceptionally entertaining book that beautifully concludes on an inspirational note. Replete with engaging legal anecdotes, this book provides a pricelessly candid look at the American criminal justice system. This book is…
REVIEW: “One Breath: Freediving, Death, and the Quest to Shatter Human Limits” by Adam Skolnick
One Breath: Freediving, Death, and the Quest to Shatter Human Limits, by Adam Skolnick Crown Archetype, 978-0553447484 Copyright January 2016, Hardcover, 336 Pages A riveting narrative on the esoteric and extreme sport of freediving, and the poignant and fateful death of America’s best freediver, Nicholas Mevoli. This is a compellingly fascinating book which demystifies competitive freediving, uncovers the…
REVIEW: “Jefferson’s America: The President, the Purchase, and the Explorers Who Transformed a Nation” by Julie M. Fenster
Jefferson’s America: The President, the Purchase, and the Explorers Who Transformed a Nation, by Julie M. Fenster Crown, ISBN: 978-0307956484 Copyright May 2016, Hardcover, 432 Pages Jefferson’s America constitutes a rather transformative reading experience; it skillfully reenacts the grandeur and inspiring era of Jeffersonian exploration as it transports the reader through a time capsule to the administration of…
REVIEW: “We the People: The Modern-Day Figures Who Have Reshaped and Affirmed the Founding Fathers’ Vision of America” by Juan Williams
We the People: The Modern-Day Figures Who Have Reshaped and Affirmed the Founding Fathers’ Vision of America, by Juan Williams Crown, ISBN: 978-0307952042 Copyright April 2016, Hardcover, 464 Pages We the People is an exceptionally well-written, immensely engaging, and effortlessly understandable book filled to the brim with incredibly thought-provoking and inspiring narratives. The book is astutely and refreshingly…
REVIEW: “Run the World: My 3,500-Mile Journey Through Running Cultures Around the Globe” by Becky Wade
Run the World: My 3,500-Mile Journey Through Running Cultures Around the Globe, by Becky Wade William Morrow Paperbacks, ISBN: 978-0062416438 Copyright July 2016, Paperback, 288 Pages Run the World is an incredibly inspirational and heartfelt book detailing Wade’s 1-year journey as she explored the very universal phenomenon of running in its various foreign configurations, and examined the greater…
REVIEW: “One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School” by Scott Turow
One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School, by Scott Turow Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ISBN: 978-0374226473 Copyright November 1988, Hardcover, 337 Pages One L is a ravishingly-written, highly entertaining, keenly inspirational, and somewhat anxiety-inducing narrative as Turow trudges through the first-year curriculum at the prestigious Harvard Law School, as one of…
REVIEW: “Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship” by Anjan Sundaram
Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship, by Anjan Sundaram Doubleday, ISBN: 978-0385539562 Copyright January 2016, Hardcover, 208 Pages Bad News boldly disclosed the dearth and smothering of press freedom under the dictatorship of Rwandan President Paul Kagame. Sundaram vividly painted the repression Rwandans are subject to, along with divulging the nation’s devastating and horrifying abuse of human…
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