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Book cover for "The president's lawyer".
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Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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After a long career as one of DC's most powerful litigators, Rob Jacobson is faced with the case of a lifetime: the former President of the United States, his childhood best friend, has been accused of murdering his mistress. Rob knows he's the only one who can prove his friend's innocence, but he is soon overwhelmed as he attempts to devise a strategy to defend an authoritative man with a taste for infidelity, serious anger issues, and unconventional...
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Publisher:
Random House
Pub. Date:
[2020]
Language:
English
Book cover for "America's lawyer-presidents".
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Publisher:
ABA Museum of Law
Pub. Date:
2009
Language:
English
Book cover for "The accidental president".
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Publisher:
Morrow
Pub. Date:
c2001
Language:
English
Book cover for "John Adams".
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Chronicles the life of America's second president, including his youth, his career as a Massachusetts farmer and lawyer, his marriage to Abigail, his rivalry with Thomas Jefferson, and his influence on the birth of the United States.
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Lexile measure:
830L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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The daughter of a judge in a New Hampshire school shooting case witnessed the events, but cannot remember the last several minutes of the attack.
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4.5 stars
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This multiple biography is centered on Lincoln's mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation's history. Historian Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius, as the one-term congressman rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals to become president. When Lincoln emerged as the victor at the Republican National Convention, his rivals were dismayed. Throughout the turbulent 1850s, each had energetically...
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Series:
Alex Cross volume 15
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Written in the fearless voice of Detective Alex Cross, Alex Cross's Trial is a #1 New York Times bestseller of murder, love, and above all, bravery.

From his grandmother, Alex Cross has heard the story of his great uncle Abraham and his struggles for survival in the era of the Ku Klux Klan. Now, Alex passes the family tale along to his own children in a novel he's written-a novel called Trial.
As a lawyer...
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Publisher:
Lionsgate
Pub. Date:
2011
Language:
English
Description:
Against the ominous backdrop of post-Civil War Washington, war hero Frederick Aiken reluctantly agrees to defend the lone woman charged in the conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln, boarding house owner Mary Surratt, before a military tribunal. As the nation turns against her, Surratt is forced to rely on Aiken to uncover the truth and save her life.
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Jack Swyteck volume 8
Language:
English
Description:
Bestselling author James Grippando is back with another innovative and action-packed thriller featuring the ever-popular Jack Swyteck. Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck guards his own family secrets as closely as anyone, and while his father's two terms as Florida's governor made some family rifts public, things are finally better between the two men. Whenever Harry Swyteck asks for Jack's help, he gets it, and suddenly he needs it more than...
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Lexile measure:
600L
Language:
English
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Examines the childhood, political career, and other activities of the seventh president of the United States, the first president to come from a poor family.
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Lexile measure:
570L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Young White House attorney Michael Garrick becomes enmeshed in a deadly conspiracy when he gets too close to Nora Hartson, the president's sexy daughter, and finds himself on the run, accused of a murder he did not commit.
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English
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3.5 stars
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"An unprecedented view of Lincoln's Springfield from the acclaimed and bestselling author of Loving Frank. Nancy Horan, author of the million-copy New York Times bestseller Loving Frank, returns with a sweeping historical novel, which tells the story of Abraham Lincoln's ascendance from rumpled lawyer to U.S. president to the Great Emancipator through the eyes of a young asylum-seeker who arrives in Lincoln's home of Springfield from Madeira, Portugal....
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Dana Cutler volume 1
Language:
English
Description:
When private detective Dana Cutler is hired by an attorney with powerful political connections, the assignment seems simple enough: follow a pretty college student named Charlotte Walsh and report on where she goes and whom she sees. But then the unexpected happens. One night, Cutler follows Walsh to a secret meeting with Christopher Farrington, the president of the United States. The following morning, Walsh's dead body shows up and Cutler has to...
Book cover for "Grover Cleveland".
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Lexile measure:
690L
Language:
English
Description:
A biography of Grover Cleveland, the only American president to serve two nonconsecutive terms in office.
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Language:
English
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When a mentor who enabled his education and career entreats him to accept the presidency of his alma mater amid an embezzlement scandal, trial lawyer Mark Darrow remembers his discovery of a murdered girl sixteen years earlier that resulted in a classmate's conviction.
Book cover for "Benjamin Harrison".
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Lexile measure:
690L
Language:
English
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Discusses the private life and political career of the grandson of the ninth president of the United States who was elected to be the twenty-third president in 1888.
Book cover for "Lincoln's last trial".
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Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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"The true story of Abraham Lincoln's last murder trial, a strange case in which he had a deep personal involvement--and which was played out in the nation's newspapers as he began his presidential campaign.At the end of the summer of 1859, twenty-two-year-old Peachy Quinn Harrison went on trial for murder in Springfield, Illinois. Abraham Lincoln, who had been involved in more than three thousand cases--including more than twenty-five murder trials--during...
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Lexile measure:
660L
Language:
English
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Examines the childhood, political career, and other activities of the twenty-first president of the United States.
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Publisher:
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"A Navy captain near the end of a decorated career, Stephen Rensselaer is disciplined, intelligent, and determined to always do what's right. In defending the development of a new variant of warship, he makes an enemy of the president of the United States, who assigns him to command the doomed line's only prototype--Athena, Patrol Coastal 15--with the intent to humiliate a man who should have been an admiral. Rather than resign, Rensselaer takes the...