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My First Roommates
Everyday Man Chronicles
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- Everyday Man Chronicles
2020
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Just when Kyle thought he'd gotten over his first love, events forces him to confront the feelings of his past. Now Kyle has to make a decision that could change the course of his life forever. Will he choose to move on or reclaim the first love of his heart?
Moving Into the Gayborhood
Everyday Man Chronicles
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- Everyday Man Chronicles
2020
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When Leo's best friends, Jerrell and Cory, surprise the circle by announcing they're gay, a shockwave is sent throughout the group, causing Leo to question everything he's ever known about sexuality, masculinity and even himself. Once Leo makes the hard decision to leave the life, he's only known, behind he'll finally find himself in a space to discover the person within that's always been ignored. But there's a problem, Leo realizes the man inside now resides in a community totally foreig...
New Deal Law and Order
How the War on Crime Built the Modern Liberal State
2024
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A historian traces the origins of the modern law-and-order state to a surprising source: the liberal policies of the New Deal.Most Americans remember the New Deal as the crucible of modern liberalism. But while it is most closely associated with Roosevelt’s efforts to end the Depression and provide social security for the elderly, we have failed to acknowledge one of its most enduring legacies: its war on crime. Crime policy, Anthony Gregory argues, was a defining ...
2017
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Historians working in the classical liberal tradition believe that individual decision-making and individual rights matter in the making of history. History written in the classical liberal tradition emerged largely in the nineteenth century, when the field of history was first professionalized in Europe and the Americas. Professional historical research was then imbued with liberal values, which included rigorous attention to the sources, historicist suspicion of an ultimate mover, an hon...
The Power of Habeas Corpus in America
From the King's Prerogative to the War on Terror
2013
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Despite its mystique as the greatest Anglo-American legal protection, habeas corpus' history features power plays, political hypocrisy, ad hoc jurisprudence, and failures in securing individual liberty. This book tells the story of the writ from medieval England to modern America, crediting the rocky history to the writ's very nature as a government power. The book weighs in on habeas' historical controversies - addressing its origins, the relationship between king and parliament, the US C...
New Deal Law and Order
How the War on Crime Built the Modern Liberal State
- Narrated by
- Bob Johnson
Unabridged
14 hours 29 min
2024
EN
Most Americans remember the New Deal as the crucible of modern liberalism. But while it is most closely associated with Roosevelt's efforts to end the Depression and provide social security for the elderly, we have failed to acknowledge one of its most enduring legacies: its war on crime. Crime policy, Anthony Gregory argues, was a defining feature of the New Deal.New Deal Law and Order follows President Franklin Roosevelt, Attorney General Homer Cummings, and their war on...
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Making Our Democracy Work
A Judge's View
2010
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The Supreme Court is one of the most extraordinary institutions in our system of government. Charged with the responsibility of interpreting the Constitution, the nine unelected justices of the Court have the awesome power to strike down laws enacted by our elected representatives. Why does the public accept the Court’s decisions as legitimate and follow them, even when those decisions are highly unpopular? What must the Court do to maintain the public’s faith? How can the Court help make ...
American Original
The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
2009
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The first full-scale biography of the Supreme Court's most provocative—and influential—justiceIf the U.S. Supreme Court teaches us anything, it is that almost everything is open to interpretation. Almost. But what's inarguable is that, while the Court has witnessed a succession of larger-than-life jurists in its two-hundred-year-plus history, it has never seen the likes of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.Combative yet captivating, infuriating yet charmin...
Lies the Government Told You
Myth, Power, and Deception in American History
2010
EN
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERYOU’VE BEEN LIED TO BY THE GOVERNMENTWe shrug off this fact as an unfortunate reality. America is the land of the free, after all. Does it really matter whether our politicians bend the truth here and there?When the truth is traded for lies, our freedoms are diminished and don’t return.In Lies the Government Told You, Judge Andrew P. Napolitano reveals how America’s...
America's Unwritten Constitution
The Precedents and Principles We Live By
2012
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From a preeminent constitutional scholar, a “highly engaging and thought-provoking” (Wall Street Journal) exploration of the unwritten rules that inform the American ConstitutionDespite its venerated place atop American law and politics, our written Constitution does not enumerate all of the rules and rights, principles and procedures that actually govern modern America. As esteemed legal scholar Akhil Reed Amar explains, the solution to many constitutiona...
The Constitution in Exile
How the Federal Government Has Seized Power by Rewriting the Supreme Law of the Land
2007
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What ever happened to our inalienable rights?The Constitution was once the bedrock of our country, an unpretentious parchment that boldly established the God-given rights and freedoms of America. Today that parchment has been shred to ribbons, explains Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew P. Napolitano, as the federal government trounces state and individual rights and expands its reach far beyond what the Framers intended.An important follow-up to...
Who Killed the Constitution?
The Fate of American Liberty from World War I to George W. Bush
2008
EN
“Let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.”—Thomas JeffersonThe United States Constitution—the bedrock of our country, the foundation of our federal republic—is . . . dead.You won’t hear that from the politicians who endlessly pay lip service to the Constitution. It’s the dirty little secret that bestselling authors Thomas E. Woods Jr. and Kevin R. C. Gutzman expose in this provocative new book. The ...











