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Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
“A riveting tale told with care and expertise.” --David Simon, creator of The Wire The former federal prosecutor and founder of Justice Innovation Lab tells the story of his struggle to unravel the cover-up of a police shooting, and subsequent incineration of the shooting victim, in Hurricane Katrina-era New Orleans. In 2009, Jared Fishman was a young prosecutor working on low-level civil rights cases in the Justice Department when a file landed...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
It's been called the starkest choice in years, between two men with sharply different backgrounds, views, and prescriptions for fixing the country's problems. Mitt Romney and Barack Obama have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to tell their own stories, but in The Choice 2012, FRONTLINE goes far beyond the headlines on a journey deep into their worlds, among their friends and family, critics, and closest colleagues, to understand what drives these...
4) 4th of July
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co. Large Print
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
5) Confessions of a Crooked Cop: From the Golden Mile to Witness Protection - An Explosive True Story
Author
Publisher
ABC Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Trevor Haken - corrupt cop turned supergrass and now inspiration for UNDERBELLY 3 - tells his story in this explosive book. Detective Sergeant trevor Haken was one of the infamous Golden Mile's most crooked cops. Now he lives in hiding, in a hell of his own creation. Graduating from small bribes to stealing money and receiving kickbacks from drug dealers, Haken became an informant for the Wood Royal Commission into corruption in the New South Wales...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A behind-the-scenes account of the #blacklivesmatter movement shares insights into the young men and women behind it, citing the racially charged controversies that have motivated members and the economic, political, and personal histories that inform its purpose.
Author
Publisher
WildBlue Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A hate crime coverup and the longest-running fight for exoneration in America on record.
In 1968, a budding New York City entrepreneur who provided immigrants with jobs takes a Florida vacation with his family. Meanwhile, his relative, an employee, is murdered on Long Island.
Upon returning to New York, Sam Sommer learns the fate of his wife's uncle, Irving Silver, when he doesn't show up to carpool to work. Three days pass with no clues about his...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism shaped George Floyd's life and legacy--from his family's roots in the tobacco fields of North Carolina, to ongoing inequality in housing, education, health care, criminal justice, and policing--telling the singular story of how one man's tragic experience brought about a global movement for change. The events of that day are now tragically familiar:...
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