The former head of the Middle East Department of the CIA during the 1950s, details his involvement in Iranian politics

Countercoup: The Struggle for the Control of Iran

Politics & Social Sciences

Roosevelt, Kermit

Politics & Government

McGraw=Hill

Countercoup

A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of the Year Winner of the Philadelphia Athenaeum Literary Award
In the Shadow of the Law is the story of Morgan Siler, a powerful Washington, D.C., law firm that has transformed itself from a traditional practice serving those most in need into a shrewd giant serving the interests of the wealthy. Through the intertwined stories of a pro bono murder case and a class action lawsuit brought against a large chemical company, we meet the fascinating, engaging, and conflicted characters that make up this world: Mark Clayton, the rookie; Walker Eliot, the prodigy; Katja Phillips, the idealist; and Harold Fineman, the brilliant and burned-out partner, leader of the chemical company's defense team. With a thorny and breathtakingly paced narrative, In the Shadow of the Law marks the arrival of a writer who "stakes a firm claim to the literary territory of Scott Turow" (The Times-Picayune, New Orleans).

In the Shadow of the Law: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

United States

Picador/

The new edition contains added materials on complex litigation and conflicts in cyberspace, federal state conflicts and the extraterritorial reach of the Constitution, incorporating recently decided Supreme Court cases. In addition, there is expanded treatment of recent family law issues, including: interstate dissolution, child custody, adoption and same-sex couples. This edition continues the tradition of organizing the teaching of conflicts around the broad themes reflected in different intellectual approaches to the problem.

Conflict of Laws, Cases, Comments, Questions, 8th (American Casebook Series)

Currie, David P.

Kramer, Larry D.

Kay, Herma Hill

Legal Theory & Systems

West Academic Publishing

Morgan Siler is one of Washington, D.C.'s most powerful K Street law firms, its roster of clients stocked with multi-billion-dollar corporations. Through the obsessive efforts of its founder's son, Peter Morgan, his father's old-fashioned business has been transformed into a veritable goliath, embracing bankruptcy and merger divisions that Archibald Morgan had deemed ungentlemanly. As Peter reaches the pinnacle of his career, his firm is embroiled in two difficult cases: a pro bono death-penalty case in Virginia, and a class-action lawsuit brought against Hubble Chemical of Texas after an on-site explosion killed dozens of workers. Assigned to these cases is a group of young associates and seasoned partners struggling to make their way in the firm. Mark Clayton, fresh out of law school, is beginning to loathe his dull workload, and to be frightened by the downgrading of his personal life, when he is assigned to the pro bono case. Assisting him is the mercurial Walker Eliot, a brilliant third-year associate whose passion for the law is as great as his skill at unraveling its intricacies. The aggressive, profane, and wildly successful litigator Harold Fineman is leading the Hubble defense, assisted by first-year Katja Phillips, whose twin devotion to productivity and idealism intrigue him, and Ryan Grady, another first-year, whose quest to pick up girls is starting to interfere with his work. In this complex, ambitious, and gripping first novel, Kermit Roosevelt vividly illustrates the subtle and stark effects of the law on the lives not only of a group of lawyers, but also on communities and private citizens. In the Shadow of the Law is a meditation about the life of the law, the organism that is a law firm, and its impact on those who come within its powerful orbit.

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

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War In The Garden Of Eden

History

Military

Kessinger Publishing, LLC

War in the Garden of Eden

World

Trieste Publishing

Book by Roosevelt, Theodore, Roosevelt, Kermit

East of the Sun and West of the Moon (The Ivory Adventure Classics)

ROOSEVELT, THEODORE

Americas

Wolfe Publishing Co., Inc.

The Long Trail

Literary

BiblioLife

The Shelf2Life WWI Memoirs Collection is an engaging set of pre-1923 materials that describe life during the Great War through memoirs, letters and diaries.  Poignant personal narratives from soldiers, doctors and nurses on the front lines to munitions workers and land girls on the home front, offer invaluable insight into the sacrifices men and women made for their country.  Photographs and illustrations intensify stories of struggle and survival from the trenches, hospitals, prison camps and battlefields.  The WWI Memoirs Collection captures the pride and fear of the war as experienced by combatants and non-combatants alike and provides historians, researchers and students extensive perspective on individual emotional responses to the war.

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