Public Justice

“Can we survive this?” worried friends ask Lamar Alexander. A US senator who started in JFK’s Justice Department, worked in the Nixon White House, turned down serving as GOP Watergate counsel and as Ford’s campaign manager, walked for six months across Tennessee to become governor, lost...

This book is about the great moral issues underlying many of the headline-making political controversies of our times. It is not a comforting book but a book about disturbing and dangerous trends. The Quest for Cosmic Justice shows how confused conceptions of justice end up promoting injustice, how confused conceptions of equality end up promoting inequality, and how the tyranny of social visions prevents many people from confronting the actual consequences of their own beliefs and policies.

A later-in-life marriage crisis. A husband’s hidden phone. And one secret text that proves another woman has already taken her seat. Nadine Keller built Mabel's Table from her grandmother's recipes, her own sweat, and twenty years of marriage to a man everyone else called charming. Then, during their anniversary dinner, she sees Troy reading a hidden text under the table. From Becca Marin. The event designer he swore was only a vendor. Nadine does not scream. She does not throw wine. She smiles for the room, saves the receipt, and starts looking. What she finds is worse than a cheating ...

A wife wakes from surgery. Her husband’s chair is empty. And the discharge paperwork proves he left before she ever went under. Miriam Weller expected pain after shoulder surgery. She did not expect to wake up asking for her husband and find her adult daughter holding the discharge folder instead. Todd has been making Miriam’s needs negotiable for years. Her schedule. Her care. Her objections. Her place in her own life. This time, there is paperwork. Todd was supposed to be in the waiting room. He was supposed to hear the post-op instructions, sign the forms, and take his wife home. ...

Will Johnnie Veal—convicted of the murder of two police officers in 1970—be granted parole after 50 years in prison? How can he convince the parole board he’s reformed when he insists he’s innocent? What is prison time even supposed to accomplish? These are the questions that propel The Parole Room forward as it builds toward Johnnie’s 20th parole hearing—after 19 rejections.

Fresh off her single-handed defense against alien adversaries in a galactic courtroom, Maxine Justice discovers that saving the Earth is not enough to earn a hero’s welcome back home. Once again broke and now looking for revenge, her return to night court as a public defender takes an immediate detour when she’s tasked with defending a Therapod murder suspect.

A former public defender takes us behind the closed doors of America's criminal courts, revealing how the institutions that claim to protect us are doing the exact opposite—and offering a blueprint for finally fixing it. “A searing, compassionate, and utterly necessary book that pulls back...

Her husband was supposed to be buried in that suit. Instead, the funeral home handed it back with a hotel key still in the pocket. Caroline Denton knew how to be a good widow. Stand beside the casket. Accept the condolences. Let everyone call Russell devoted, honorable, impossible to replace. Then the funeral home returns the navy suit Russell was supposed to be buried in, and Caroline finds a Whitcomb House keycard and a printed suite receipt tucked inside the pocket. One room. Two breakfasts. Two robes. The date is the night Russell said he was helping his mother after a fall. The ...

The disclosure already happened. You just haven't read it yet. The public record shows that a man with no college degree gained legal control over a billion-dollar fortune. That the largest private residence in Manhattan was transferred to him for zero dollars. That a federal sex trafficking investigation was buried through a secret deal granting immunity to every unnamed co-conspirator. That a federal judge ruled the deal broke the law. That intelligence agencies responded to questions about this man using the legal standard reserved for classified operations. This is not conspiracy theory...

CONSERVATISM: AMERICA’S PERSONALITY DISORDER Conservatives often defend policies that feel hard-hearted. Why? Christopher Armitage and D. Carl Brown argue the root problem is a measurable empathy gap, not mere ideology. Their concise analysis shows how this gap drives positions on poverty, immigration, pollution, reproductive rights, and LGBTQ+ equality, hurting millions while claiming virtue. Grounded in psychology and real-world data, this book reframes the culture war and offers a path toward compassion-led politics. Christopher Armitage is an Air Force veteran and researcher in ...

Efforts to address inequities within our schools tend to ignore the underlying beliefs that sustain injustices, and focus instead on short-lived policies and practices. This book takes a different approach to eradicating educational disparities. Drawing on more than 40 interviews with teachers, principals, and district leaders, Manya C. Whitaker offers educators guidance for leading a school or district grounded in social justice that centers teachers - not just teaching practices - and that focuses on the belief systems that shape decision-making.

Fusing science and social justice, renowned public health researcher Dr. Arline T. Geronimus offers an urgent book exploring the ways in which systemic injustice erodes the health of marginalized people. "Monumental." —Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped from the Beginning America has woken up...

An important account of everyday heroes fighting on the front lines of the overdose crisis, from the New York Times bestselling author of Dopesick and Factory Man. “Deeply reported, deeply moving” —Patrick Radden Keefe Nearly a decade into the second wave of America's overdose crisis...

"Copaganda" is a special kind of propaganda employed by police, prosecutors, and news media. It stokes fear of police-recorded crime and distorts society’s responses to it. As the United States incarcerates five times more people per capita than it did in 1970—despite record low crime rates—a sprawling and profitable punishment bureaucracy spends a lot of time and money to manipulate what we think that bureaucracy does and why.

Confessions of a Public Defender describes the experiences of a criminal lawyer. The events and the descriptions in this book are derived from real courtroom experiences. The cases and outcomes are part of David Carson Futch's life experience that he wished had been available to him before law school. The only book he read concerning the actual law school experience was called One L, referring to a first-year law student.

In this national bestseller from cultural critic and social impact leader Alencia Johnson comes a guide for everyday disruptors ready to find their courage, shake up the status quo, and create a better world from exactly where they are. We all crave lives of meaning and purpose but figuring out...

ALSO AVAILABLE AS PART OF A BOX SET 5 True Crime Gangster Stories from the Roaring Twenties Do you like true crime stories? Public Enemies – True Crime Gangster Stories from the Roaring Twenties From the era of gangsters, molls and prohibition, almost (but not quite), lost in the mists of time, these tales romp along with plenty of action and recreate the atmosphere of this exciting and dangerous era using the vernacular of the times. You’ll have heard of most of these notorious criminals, but possibly not so much about one or two of them. All of them were real, ruthless hoodlums, ...

A blueprint for criminal justice reform that lays the foundation for how model public defense programs should work to end mass incarceration. Combining wisdom drawn from over a dozen years as a public defender and cutting-edge research in the fields of organizational and cultural psychology...

Bloomsbury presents 23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang, read by Joe Barrett. INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER "For anyone who wants to understand capitalism not as economists or politicians have pictured it but as it actually operates, this book will be invaluable."-Observer...

Do you like true crime stories? Public Enemies – True Crime Gangster Stories from the Roaring Twenties From the era of gangsters, molls and prohibition, almost (but not quite), lost in the mists of time, these tales romp along with plenty of action and recreate the atmosphere of this exciting and dangerous era using the vernacular of the times. You’ll have heard of most of these notorious criminals, but possibly not so much about one or two of them. All of them were real, ruthless hoodlums, and all had their "15 minutes of fame", leaving trails of death and mayhem behind them. Most did ...