Hitler's First Victims
By: Timothy W. Ryback
Narrated by: Derek Perkins
Length: 7 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Before Germany was engulfed by Nazi dictatorship, it was a constitutional republic. And just before Dachau Concentration Camp became a site of Nazi genocide, it was a state detention center for political prisoners, subject to police authority and due process. The camp began its irrevocable transformation from one to the other following the... Read more
View audiobookLaw of the Jungle
By: Paul M. Barrett
Narrated by: Joe Ochman
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
The gripping story of one American lawyer’s obsessive crusade—waged at any cost—against Big Oil on behalf of the poor farmers and indigenous tribes of the Amazon rainforest.
Steven Donziger, a self-styled social activist and Harvard educated lawyer, signed on to a budding class action lawsuit against multinational Texaco (which later merged with... Read more
World's Greatest Arguments for More Restrictive Immigration Policies
By: Trevor Clinger
Narrated by: Richard Frances
Length: 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Navigating the contentious landscape of immigration policy demands a nuanced understanding of its multifaceted implications. Amidst the fervent debates and occasional outbreaks of violence at national borders, the quest for security intertwines with the imperative to foster inclusivity. In this illuminating paper, penned from a steadfastly... Read more
View audiobookAlexanderplatz, Berlin
By: Georg Diez
Length: 1 hour 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Alexanderplatz has long survived as the symbol of a city burdened by its ruinous past. In 2012, twenty-year-old Jonny K. was beaten to death on this infamous Berlin square—and Germany’s first multicultural murder brought another shock to a country that’s seen its share. Before the trial, the question of guilt already had an ideological slant:... Read more
View audiobookA Delusion of Satan
By: Frances Hill
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
During the bleak winter of 1692 in the rigid Puritan community of Salem Village, Massachusetts, a group of young girls began experiencing violent fits, allegedly tormented by Satan and the witches who worshipped him. From the girls' initial denouncing of an Indian slave, the accusations soon multiplied. In less than two years, nineteen men and... Read more
View audiobookWar of the Whales
By: Joshua Horwitz
Narrated by: Holter Graham
Length: 13 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2015 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award: “Horwitz’s dogged reporting…combined with crisp, cinematic writing, produces a powerful narrative…. He has written a book that is instructive and passionate and deserving a wide audience” (PEN Award Citation).
Six years in the making, War of the Whales is the “gripping detective... Read more
The Skeleton Crew
By: Deborah Halber
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 10 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
The Skeleton Crew provides an entree into the gritty and tumultuous world of Sherlock Holmes–wannabes who race to beat out law enforcement—and one another—at matching missing persons with unidentified remains.
In America today, upwards of forty thousand people are dead and unaccounted for. These murder, suicide, and accident victims, separated... Read more
Redeeming the Dream
By: David Boies & Theodore B. Olson
Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
Length: 12 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
The riveting inside story of the Supreme Court's landmark rulings on the Defense of Marriage Act and Proposition 8—by the two lawyers who argued the caseOn June 26, 2013, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a pair of landmark decisions, striking down the Defense of Marriage Act and eliminating California's discriminatory Proposition 8,... Read more
View audiobookUncertain Justice
By: Laurence Tribe & Joshua Matz
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 15 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Harvard Law School scholars Laurence Tribe and Joshua Matz reveal how Chief Justice John Roberts is shaking the foundation of our nation’s laws in Uncertain Justice: The Roberts Court and the Constitution.
From Citizens United to its momentous rulings regarding Obamacare and gay marriage, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts has... Read more
Supreme Court Overturns Florida's Rigid IQ Cutoff for Death Penalty Eligibility
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 4 minutes
Abridged: No
The Supreme Court voted 5-4 to overturn a Florida rule that used an IQ score of 70 as the determining factor in deeming individuals mentally fit for execution. For a closer look at the decision, Judy Woodruff talks to Marcia Coyle of The National Law Journal. Read more
View audiobookExecution gone wrong raises questions
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 10 minutes
Abridged: No
In Oklahoma, Clayton Lockett died of a heart attack when he was given an untested combination of drugs in what was intended to be a lethal injection. Judy Woodruff talks to Cary Aspinwall who has been covering the story for Tulsa World. Attorney Roy Englert and Deborah Denno of Fordham University School of Law discuss whether states can... Read more
View audiobookRetired Supreme Court Justice Stevens
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens talks to Judy Woodruff about his new book, Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution. In his book, the 94-year-old liberal justice calls for major changes to the Constitution on issues such as the death penalty, firearms, redistricting and campaign finance. Read more
View audiobookCivil Rights Act Pioneered Anti-Discrimination Laws
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 15 minutes
Abridged: No
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law 50 years ago. Gwen Ifill examines its legacy and unfinished business with President Johnson's daughter, Lynda Johnson Robb, Shirley Franklin, the former mayor of Atlanta, Ranjana Natarajan of the University of Texas School of Law, and former House Republican aide Robert Kimball. Read more
View audiobookDrugs Used in Lethal Injections
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 9 minutes
Abridged: No
As foreign supplies have dwindled, traditional lethal injection drugs are being replaced with others manufactured in the U.S. But inmates and lawyers are questioning whether these new drugs will result in death without undue pain and suffering. Gwen Ifill takes a closer look at the issue with Megan McCracken of the University of California,... Read more
View audiobookSix Women of Salem
By: Marilynne K. Roach
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 17 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Six Women of Salem is the first work to use the lives of a select number of representative women as a microcosm to illuminate the larger crisis of the Salem witch trials. By the end of the trials, beyond the twenty who were executed and the five who perished in prison, two hundred and seven individuals had been accused, seventy four had been... Read more
View audiobookIdea to invention
By: Patricia Nolan-Brown
Narrated by: Karen Saltus
Length: 6 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
You don't have to be a mechanical genius to be an inventor. Anyone can invent - a parent wrestling with a baby sling ...a coach frustrated with slick-soled running shoes ...an office worker determined to keep the computer cords untangled. Inventing is simply finding clever solutions to everyday challenges. Author and inventor Patricia... Read more
View audiobookFred & Rose
By: Howard Sounes
Narrated by: Howard Sounes
Length: 14 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
FRED & ROSE IS THE DEFINITIVE ACCOUNT OF THIS INFAMOUS TRUE CRIME CASE - NOW UPDATED WITH A POSTSCRIPT FROM THE AUTHOR. AS FEATURED ON TV, AND IN THE PODCAST SERIES, UNHEARD: THE FRED & ROSE WEST TAPES
Fred and Rose West are virtually unique in British criminal history: a husband and wife who loved and killed together.
During their long... Read more
Hawaii Hope
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 9 minutes
Abridged: No
NewsHour Weekend profiles an innovative probation program in Hawaii that has been so successful in reforming offenders and keeping them out of prison, it's now being copied in courtrooms across the nation. Read more
View audiobookTaking the Stand
By: Alan Dershowitz
Narrated by: Ella Dershowitz & Alan Dershowitz
Length: 21 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 New York Times bestselling author Alan Dershowitz recounts his extraordinary coming of age in this legal autobiography, as well as the cases that have changed American jurisprudence over the past fifty years, most of which he has personally been involved in.
“Overflowing with fascinating and funny vignettes involving his cases and clients, and... Read more
Enemies Within
By: Matt Apuzzo & Adam Goldman
Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
Length: 8 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Two Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists take an unbridled look into one of the most sensitive post-9/11 national security investigations, a breathtaking race to avert a second devastating terrorist attack on American soil.In Enemies Within Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman lay bare the complex and often contradictory state of counterterrorism and... Read more
View audiobookThe Great Dissent
By: Thomas Healy
Narrated by: Danny Campbell
Length: 10 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
No right seems more fundamental to American public life than freedom of speech. Yet well into the twentieth century, that freedom was still an unfulfilled promise, with Americans regularly imprisoned merely for speaking out against government policies. Indeed, free speech as we know it comes less from the First Amendment than from a most... Read more
View audiobookThe Trials of Laura Fair
By: Carole Haber
Narrated by: Pam Ward
Length: 10 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
On November 3, 1870, on a San Francisco ferry, Laura Fair shot and killed her married lover, A. P. Crittenden. Throughout her two murder trials, Fair’s lawyers, supported by expert testimony from physicians, claimed that the shooting was the result of temporary insanity caused by a severely painful menstrual cycle. The first jury disregarded... Read more
View audiobookIs Health Care Reform a Good Bargain or Burden for Young Americans?
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Under the Affordable Care Act, getting young people into the health insurance market will be critical to offsetting the cost of caring for older, sicker Americans. Ray Suarez gets two views on how health reform will affect young adults from Jen Mishory of Young Invincibles and Generation Opportunity’s Evan Feinberg. Read more
View audiobookWas Justice Served in Murder Acquittal of George Zimmerman?
By: PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Length: 14 minutes
Abridged: No
The George Zimmerman verdict has provoked passionate debate about legal justice and race in the U.S. Judy Woodruff gets reaction from Christina Swarns of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, New Yorker contributor Jelani Cobb, Jonathan Turley of the George Washington University Law School and Carol Swain of Vanderbilt Law School. Read more
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