Michael D. Davis
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The first volume of The Count Whorton Collection, brilliantly written and illustrated by Michael D. Davis, harks back to the slick days of Nick and Nora Charles while set in a skeevy modern world. His tales of a fascinating wayward detective, his courtesan lady friend and a host of colorful characters remain unpredictable, and in that, Davis has reanimated the detective genre in his unique way. The fans are already awaiting volume two.
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The date was May 17, 1954. One Supreme Court justice called it "a day that will live in glory." Another hailed it as "a great day for America and the Court." It was the day the nine justices, handed Thurgood Marshall, chief legal counsel for the plaintiffs, a unanimous victory in Brown v. Board of Education, the historic ruling that outlawed racial segregation in public schools, and set America on track to fulfill the promise engraved above the entrance...
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The first African-American to serve on the United States Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall was the only justice who experienced segregation in the back of the bus.
From his early life in Baltimore at the turn of the century to his retirement in June 1991 after twenty-four years of service on the Court, Marshall was, a feisty curmudgeon with a passion and fury, a pioneering lawyer, who became America's most prominent civil rights attorney, winning...
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Simon & Schuster
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"Two New York Times Washington correspondents provide an inside account with never-before-told stories of the defining issue of Donald Trump's presidency: his steadfast opposition to immigration to the US. Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Michael D. Shear have covered the Trump administration from its earliest days. In Border Wars, they take readers inside the White House to document how Trump and his allies blocked asylum-seekers and refugees, separated...