| Storming the Court: How a Band of Law Students Fought the President--And Won Contributor(s): Goldstein, Brandt (Author) |
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ISBN: 1416535152 ISBN-13: 9781416535157 Publisher: Scribner Book Company OUR PRICE: $18.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2006 Annotation: The extraordinary true tale of a group of idealistic Yale law students who challenged the United States government and the American military in a battle for freedom that went all the way to the Supreme Court--and more than ever resonates today. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Legal History - Political Science | Human Rights - History | United States - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 342.730 |
| Physical Information: 0.95" H x 5.76" W x 8.4" (0.77 lbs) 384 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1990's - Chronological Period - 21st Century - Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
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| Publisher Description: In 1992, three hundred innocent Haitian men, women, and children who had qualified for political asylum in the United States were detained at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba -- and told they might never be freed. Charismatic democracy activist Yvonne Pascal and her fellow refugees had no contact with the outside world, no lawyers, and no hope . . . until a group of inspired Yale Law School students vowed to free them. Pitting the students and their untested professor Harold Koh against Kenneth Starr, the Justice Department, the Pentagon, and Presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton, this real-life legal thriller takes the reader from the halls of Yale and the federal courts of New York to the slums of Port-au-Prince and the windswept hills of Guantánamo Bay and ultimately to the U.S. Supreme Court. Written with grace and passion, Storming the Court captures the emotional highs and despairing lows of a legal education like no other -- a high-stakes courtroom campaign against the White House in the name of the greatest of American values: freedom. |
Contributor Bio(s): Goldstein, Brandt: - Brandt Goldstein, a 1992 graduate of Yale Law School, has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Slate. He writes a monthly feature for The Wall Street Journal online edition and is a visiting professor at New York Law School. |