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Rachel Maddow leads a revelatory, rollicking trip through the history of the Justice Department, finding heroism and treachery in equal measure—and, in the end, a rescue effort for our battered democracy. Over its nearly 150 years, the United States Department of Justice became America’s...

Imagine discovering the locked diaries of someone who recorded his unvarnished, behind-the-scenes encounters with some of the most famous people of his generation: world leaders, explorers, iconic movie and sports stars, and even two canonized saints. How badly would you want to locate that key?...

A civil case is not won simply because one thinks that the grievance is serious. That may very well be. However, a litigant must identify a legally recognized claim or defense, proceed in the correct court, meet every deadline, present admissible evidence, and request relief the court has the...

He defended the NCAA for a decade. Now he is telling the truth about what came next and why.When Donald M. Remy joined the NCAA in 2011 as the top lawyer, the billion-dollar amateurism model was already fracturing under the weight of lawsuits, governance failures, and a rising tide of athlete...

America's Founding Fathers feared that a standing army would be a permanent political danger, yet the U.S. military has in the 250 years since become a bulwark of democracy. Kori Schake explains why in this compelling history of civil-military relations from independence to the challenges of the...

Systematically Excluded: A Trial Judge’s Fight for Justice is the story of a trial judge’s ruling in a particular case and what followed when he decided to speak about a petition for certification of law—a matter he believed demanded it. A single ruling—and the speech surrounding it—became the focal point of years of scrutiny, controversy, and institutional response. This book reflects on the professional and human costs of standing alone in the face of institutional power.

From an acclaimed New York Times bestselling biographer comes a remarkable new look at the only man to serve as both president and chief justice of the United States. The conventional wisdom is that William Howard Taft was a mediocre president, a man almost without political skills. Yet Taft’s...