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Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New AmericaT. J. Stiles201622 pts1 wins5 listsKnopfBiographyAmerican Civil War+2
Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant NonviolenceErik Erikson196920 pts2 wins2 listsW. W. NortonPolitics & GovernmentCourts & Trials+2
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of PunishmentShane Bauer201918 pts3 wins5 listsPenguin PressTrue Crime & JusticeCrime, Policing & Violence+2
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black AmericaJames Forman Jr.201716 pts1 wins3 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxRace & EthnicityPrisons & Incarceration+2
The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary AmericaJohn Wood Sweet202314 pts2 wins2 listsHenry Holt and CompanyHistoryCourts & Trials+3
The Great Arizona Orphan AbductionLinda Gordon199914 pts2 wins2 listsHarvard University PressHistoryCourts & Trials+3
Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass IncarcerationEmily Bazelon201914 pts1 wins3 listsRandom HouseTrue Crime & JusticeCrime, Policing & Violence+2
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of BeliefLawrence Wright201314 pts0 wins4 listsVintage BooksReligionCrime, Policing & Violence+2
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or the Murder at Road Hill HouseKate Summerscale200812 pts1 wins2 listsUnknown imprintTrue Crime & JusticeCourts & Trials+1
White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century IndiaWilliam Dalrymple200212 pts1 wins2 listsHarperCollinsHistoryEmpire & Colonialism+3
Thomas Cranmer: A LifeDiarmaid MacCulloch199612 pts3 wins3 listsYale University PressBiographyReligion & Religious Movements+3
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in AmericaJill Leovy201512 pts2 wins3 listsOne WorldTrue Crime & JusticePrisons & Incarceration+2
All God’s Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of ViolenceFox Butterfield199512 pts1 wins3 listsKnopfRace & EthnicityCourts & Trials+2
Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save AmericaDahlia Lithwick202210 pts1 wins1 listsPenguin Publishing GroupPolitics & GovernmentLaw & Legal Change+2
Thomas Wyatt: The Heart's ForestSusan Brigden201210 pts1 wins1 listsFaber & FaberBiographyCourts & Trials+3
The Man on Devil's Island: Alfred Dreyfus and the Affair that Divided FranceRuth Harris201010 pts1 wins1 listsAllen LaneHistoryCourts & Trials+3
Dance in the Renaissance: European Fashion, French ObsessionMargaret McGowan200810 pts1 wins1 listsYale University PressHistoryCourts & Trials+3
The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World ImpressionismRoss King200610 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintArts & CriticismEssays & Cultural Criticism+2
From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial EqualityMichael J. Klarman200410 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressRace & EthnicityCivil Rights & Racial Justice+3
Transformations of Love: The Friendship of John Evelyn and Margaret GodolphinFrances Harris200210 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressBiographyBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and ReligionEdward J. Larson199710 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistoryLaw & Legal Change+2
The Kaiser and his Court: Wilhelm II and the Government of GermanyJohn Röhl199510 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressBiographyEnvironment, Conservation & Pollution+3
Congressional Quarterly's Guide to the U.S. Supreme CourtElder Witt198010 pts1 wins1 listsCQ PressPolitics & GovernmentCrime, Policing & Violence+2
Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French LouisianaSophie White20198 pts2 wins2 listsUniversity of North Carolina PressHistorySlavery & Emancipation+3
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed AmericaErik Larson20038 pts1 wins2 listsVintage BooksTrue Crime & JusticeCourts & Trials+1
Race, Crime, and the LawRandall Kennedy19978 pts1 wins2 listsPantheonRace & EthnicityCourts & Trials+2
Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence ThomasJane Mayer, Jill Abramson19948 pts0 wins2 listsUnknown imprintPolitics & GovernmentCrime, Policing & Violence+1
The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857William Dalrymple20066 pts1 wins2 listsBloomsburyHistoryAmerican Politics+1
France on Trial: The Case of Marshal PétainJulian Jackson20236 pts1 wins2 listsHarvard University PressHistoryCrime, Policing & Violence+2
The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce’s UlyssesKevin Birmingham20146 pts1 wins2 listsPenguin PressHistoryEssays & Cultural Criticism+2
Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass IncarcerationReuben Jonathan Miller20226 pts0 wins2 listsLittle, BrownRace & EthnicityCrime, Policing & Violence+2
Den of ThievesJames B. Stewart19916 pts0 wins2 listsSimon & SchusterBusiness & EconomicsPrisons & Incarceration+2
Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever ToldJeremy Atherton Lin20254 pts1 wins1 listsLittle, BrownMemoir & AutobiographyLgbtq History & Life+3
The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the NorthMichelle Adams20254 pts1 wins1 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxRace & EthnicityBlack History & Culture+3
The Worst Trickster Story Ever Told: Native America, the Supreme Court, and the U.S. ConstitutionKeith Richotte, Jr.20254 pts1 wins1 listsStanford University PressPolitics & GovernmentConstitutional History+3
Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for ProfitRobin Bernstein20244 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Chicago PressTrue Crime & JusticeBlack History & Culture+3
Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the CosmosTravis Zadeh20234 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistoryScience & Discovery+3
A Question Of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation's Founding to the Civil WarWilliam G. Thomas III20214 pts1 wins1 listsYale University PressHistorySlavery & Emancipation+3
Burning Man: The Trials of D. H. LawrenceFrances Wilson20214 pts1 wins1 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxBiographyBlack History & Culture+3
Eunice Hunton Carter: A Lifelong Fight for Social JusticeMarilyn S. Greenwald, Yun Li20214 pts1 wins1 listsFordham University PressBiographyIndigenous History+3
Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War IIFrancine Hirsch20204 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressHistoryGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+3
Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American FreedomSarah Seo20194 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistoryCrime, Policing & Violence+3
Awakening: How Gays and Lesbians Brought Marriage Equality to AmericaNathaniel Frank20174 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressPolitics & GovernmentLgbtq History & Life+3
Freedom’s Debtors: British Antislavery in Sierra Leone in the Age of RevolutionPadraic Scanlan20174 pts1 wins1 listsYale University PressHistoryCourts & Trials+3
Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal CourtNicole Gonzalez Van Cleve20164 pts1 wins1 listsStanford University PressTrue Crime & JusticeBlack History & Culture+3
The Murder of William of Norwich: The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval EuropeE.M. Rose20154 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressHistoryCourts & Trials+3
Immigration Outside the LawHiroshi Motomura20144 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressPolitics & GovernmentConstitutional History+3
The Queen's Bed: An Intimate History of Elizabeth's CourtAnna Whitelock20144 pts1 wins1 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxHistoryGender & Feminism+3
Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your BehaviorLeonard Mlodinow20134 pts1 wins1 listsVintage BooksScienceCourts & Trials+3
Social Perception and Social Reality: Why Accuracy Dominates Bias and Self-Fulfilling ProphecyLee Jussim20124 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressScienceScience & Discovery+2
Listed: Dispatches from America's Endangered Species ActJoe Roman20114 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressNature & EnvironmentOceans, Rivers & Water+3
Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison EmpireRobert Perkinson20104 pts1 wins1 listsPicadorTrue Crime & JusticeCrime, Policing & Violence+2
The Slave Ship: A Human HistoryMarcus Rediker20084 pts1 wins1 listsVikingHistoryBlack History & Culture+3
Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American DemocracyCharlie Savage20074 pts1 wins1 listsLittle, BrownPolitics & GovernmentGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+3
The Greeks and Greek Love: A Bold New Exploration of the Ancient WorldJames Davidson20074 pts1 wins1 listsRandom HouseHistoryArt, Music & Performance+3
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme CourtJeffrey Toobin20074 pts1 wins1 listsDoubledayPolitics & GovernmentReproductive Rights & Family Policy+3
The Heretic in Darwin’s Court: The Life of Alfred Russel WallaceRoss A. Slotten20044 pts1 wins1 listsColumbia University PressBiographyCourts & Trials+2
Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern ItalyPaula Findlen19944 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of California PressArts & CriticismCourts & Trials+2
Gentlemen of Property and Standing: Anti-Abolition Mobs in Jacksonian AmericaLeonard Richards19704 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressHistorySlavery & Emancipation+3
A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on TrialSuzanne Lebsock20044 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintTrue Crime & JusticeCrime, Policing & Violence+3
Court of Last ResortErle Stanley Gardner19534 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintTrue Crime & JusticeCrime, Policing & Violence+2
Death and the Supreme CourtBarrett Prettyman Jr.19624 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintTrue Crime & JusticeCrime, Policing & Violence+3
Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Laws That Changed AmericaNick Kotz20064 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintTrue Crime & JusticeEssays & Cultural Criticism+1
Taming the Storm: The Life and Times of Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr. and the South’s Fight Over Civil RightsJack Bass19944 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyPresidential Biography+3
The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman EmpirePamela H. Smith19954 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressHistoryBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
The Mirror of Justice: Literary Reflections of Legal CrisesTheodore Ziolkowski19984 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressPolitics & GovernmentCourts & Trials+3
The World of the Shining PrinceIvan Morris19644 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintHistoryEssays & Cultural Criticism+3
Everything Is Predictable: How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem Explains the WorldTom Chivers20244 pts0 wins1 listsOrionScienceBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918–1921 and the Onset of the HolocaustJeffrey Veidlinger20214 pts0 wins1 listsMetropolitan BooksHistoryWorld War I+3
A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and FreedomBrittany K. Barnett20204 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintTrue Crime & JusticeCourts & Trials+3
Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American IncarcerationChristine Montross20204 pts0 wins1 listsPenguin PressTrue Crime & JusticeCrime, Policing & Violence+2
El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal InsurgencyIoan Grillo20114 pts0 wins1 listsBloomsburyTrue Crime & JusticePrisons & Incarceration+2
Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our PerilMargaret Heffernan20114 pts0 wins1 listsSimon & SchusterSociety & CultureCourts & Trials+3
Courtroom 302: A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal CourthouseSteve Bogira20054 pts0 wins1 listsKnopfTrue Crime & JusticePrisons & Incarceration+2
An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President ClintonRichard A. Posner19994 pts0 wins1 listsHarvard University PressPolitics & GovernmentCourts & Trials+2
Crime and Punishment in AmericaElliott Currie19984 pts0 wins1 listsMetropolitan BooksTrue Crime & JusticePrisons & Incarceration+2
A History of American LawLawrence M. Friedman19734 pts0 wins1 listsSimon & SchusterHistoryCourts & Trials+2
The Crime of PunishmentKarl Menninger, M.D.19684 pts0 wins1 listsVikingTrue Crime & JusticeCrime, Policing & Violence+2
Crisis in Watertown: The Polarization of an American CommunityLynn Eden19734 pts0 wins1 listsUniversity of Michigan PressPolitics & GovernmentPrisons & Incarceration+2
Kind and Usual Punishment: The Prison BusinessJessica Mitford19744 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintTrue Crime & JusticeCourts & Trials+2
Learned Hand: The Man and the JudgeGerald Gunther19944 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyMemoir & Personal History+2
Perjury: The Hiss–Chambers CaseAllen Weinstein19804 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintHistoryCourts & Trials+1
Sea Trial: Sailing After My FatherBrian Harvey20194 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyCourts & Trials+3
The Law of the Land: The Evolution of Our Legal SystemCharles Rembar19824 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintPolitics & GovernmentCourts & Trials+2
They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial ViolenceLauren Benton20244 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintHistoryCourts & Trials+1
Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed AmericaWil Haygood20164 pts0 wins2 listsVintage BooksBiographyCourts & Trials+3
Unbearable: Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy in AmericaIrin Carmon20252 pts0 wins1 listsSimon & SchusterMedicine & Public HealthCourts & Trials+3
Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American JusticeBarbara Bradley Hagerty20242 pts0 wins1 listsRiverhead BooksTrue Crime & JusticeBlack History & Culture+3
Gaslight: The Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Fight for America's Energy FutureJonathan Mingle20242 pts0 wins1 listsIsland PressPolitics & GovernmentCrime, Policing & Violence+3
Althea: The Life of Tennis Champion Althea GibsonSally H. Jacobs20232 pts0 wins1 listsSt. Martin's PressBiographyBlack History & Culture+3
You Are Not American: Citizenship Stripping from Dred Scott to the DreamersAmanda Frost20222 pts0 wins1 listsBeacon PressHistoryBlack History & Culture+3
The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and ThinkJennifer Ackerman20202 pts0 wins1 listsPenguin PressScienceCourts & Trials+3
Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of ViolenceKellie Carter Jackson20192 pts0 wins1 listsUniversity of Pennsylvania PressHistoryBlack History & Culture+3
Elizabeth: The Forgotten YearsJohn Guy20162 pts0 wins1 listsPenguin BooksBiographyCrime, Policing & Violence+3
The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on DemocracyZachary Roth20162 pts0 wins1 listsCrownPolitics & GovernmentDemocracy & Elections+3
University, Court, and Slave: Pro-Slavery Thought in Southern Colleges and Courts and the Coming of Civil WarAlfred L. Brophy20162 pts0 wins1 listsOxford University PressSociety & CultureSlavery & Emancipation+3
Irrepressible: A Jazz Age Life of Henrietta BinghamEmily Bingham20152 pts0 wins1 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxBiographyDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+3
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All awards · Topic: Courts & Trials · Sorted by score · 127 books · filtered