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  • Sandra Day O'Connor

    How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice

    by Joan Biskupic ...
    "Sandra Day O'Connor takes you behind the closed doors of the Supreme Court to reveal how Justice O'Connor helped craft landmark decisions on abortion, affirmative action, and a host of other critical issues. Joan Biskupic has broken new ground in reporting on O'Connor's life and historic role on the high court. This lively, fast-paced account will make people rethink how they view this ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nine Black Robes

    Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences

    by Joan Biskupic ...
    New York Times Editor's Choice"Biskupic, an accomplished and well-sourced journalist, knows the court as well as anyone now covering it... In her new book Biskupic has done something different and a good deal harder. She has written a group narrative that combines close accounts of the court's public business in the Trump years with a history of its private dramas and conflicts... The deeper ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Chief

    The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts

    by Joan Biskupic ...
    An incisive biography of the Supreme Court's enigmatic Chief Justice, taking us inside the momentous legal decisions of his tenure so far.John Roberts was named to the Supreme Court in 2005 claiming he would act as a neutral umpire in deciding cases. His critics argue he has been anything but, pointing to his conservative victories on voting rights and campaign finance. Yet he broke from orthodoxy ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • American Original

    The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

    by Joan Biskupic ...
    The first full-scale biography of the Supreme Court's most provocative—and influential—justiceIf the U.S. Supreme Court teaches us anything, it is that almost everything is open to interpretation. Almost. But what's inarguable is that, while the Court has witnessed a succession of larger-than-life jurists in its two-hundred-year-plus history, it has never seen the likes of Supreme Court Justice ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Breaking In

    The Rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice

    by Joan Biskupic ...
    "I knew she'd be trouble."So quipped Antonin Scalia about Sonia Sotomayor at the Supreme Court's annual end-of-term party in 2010. It's usually the sort of event one would expect from such a grand institution, with gentle parodies of the justices performed by their law clerks, but this year Sotomayor decided to shake it up—flooding the room with salsa music and coaxing her fellow justices to dance ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    The Chief

    The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts

    by Joan Biskupic ...
    Narrated by Jennywren Walker ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 6 min

    An incisive biography of the Supreme Court's enigmatic Chief Justice, taking us inside the momentous legal decisions of his tenure so far.John Roberts was named to the Supreme Court in 2005 claiming he would act as a neutral umpire in deciding cases. His critics argue he has been anything but, pointing to his conservative victories on voting rights and campaign finance. Yet he broke from orthodoxy ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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    Nine Black Robes

    Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences

    by Joan Biskupic ...
    Narrated by Kirsten Potter ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 11 min

    New York Times Editor's Choice""Biskupic, an accomplished and well-sourced journalist, knows the court as well as anyone now covering it... In her new book Biskupic has done something different and a good deal harder. She has written a group narrative that combines close accounts of the court's public business in the Trump years with a history of its private dramas and conflicts... The deeper ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Breaking In

    The Rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice

    by Joan Biskupic ...
    Narrated by Carrington MacDuffie ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 19 min

    In Breaking In, veteran journalist Joan Biskupic tells the story of how two forces providentially merged—the large ambitions of a talented Puerto Rican girl raised in the projects in the Bronx and the increasing political presence of Hispanics, from California to Texas, from Florida to the Northeast—resulting in a historical appointment. And this is not just a tale about breaking barriers as a ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Ministry of Truth

    Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past

    by Steve Benen ...
    Narrated by Rachel Maddow ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 38 min

    READ BY RACHEL MADDOWA searing, vital investigation of the Republican Party’s dangerous campaign to rewrite history in real time, from the Emmy Award-winning Rachel Maddow Show producer and bestselling author of The Impostors.“There is nobody…who has more influence on the way I think about politics than Steve Benen.” —Rachel MaddowFor as long as historical records have existed, aut... ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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    American Whitelash

    A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress

    by Wesley Lowery ...
    Narrated by Wesley Lowery ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn NPR Best Book of the Year • Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the YearLonglisted for the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence“American Whitelash is indispensable. Really. It is.” – Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an AntiracistPulitzer Prize–winning journalist Wesley Lowery confronts the sickness at th... ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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    John Lewis

    A Life

    by David Greenberg ...
    Narrated by David Sadzin ...

    Unabridged

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    Pulitzer Prize FinalistNew York Times Book Review Top 100 Books of 2024Explore the “comprehensive and compelling” (Jon Meacham) biography of civil rights leader John Lewis, celebrated as “the conscience of Congress,” through a narrative that weaves together exclusive interviews, never-before-seen FBI files, and documents, offering profound insights into his significant role in American history and ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

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    Tyranny of the Minority

    Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point

    by Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt ...
    Narrated by Fred Sanders ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 49 min

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it’s too late—from the authors of How Democracies Die“[Levitsky and Ziblatt] write with terrifying clarity about how the forces of the right have co-opted the enshrined rules to exert their tyranny.”—The Washington PostONE OF THE CALIFORNIA REVIEW OF BOOKS’ TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • A NEWSWEEK BES... ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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