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Notable Cases

Baker, Liva.  Miranda: The Crime, the Law, the Politics.  New York: Atheneum, 1983. 
  
Dershowitz, Alan M.  Taking Liberties: A Decade of Hard Cases, Bad Laws, and Bum Raps.
 Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1988. 

Dewitt, David Miller.  The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson.  New York: The
 Notable Trials Library, Division of Gryphon Editions, 1992.  

Kahn, Paul W.  The Reign of Law: Marbury v. Madison and the Construction of America. New
 Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.    

Kluger, Richard.  Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black
 America's Struggle for Equality.   New York: Knopf, 1976.   
 
Larson, Edward J.  Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing
 Debate Over Science and Religion.  New York: Basic Books, 1997.    

Lewis, Anthony. Gideon's Trumpet. New York: Random House, 1964.   
 
Radosh, Ronald.  The Rosenberg File.   2d ed.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.
   
Rudenstine, David.  The Day the Presses Stopped: A History of the Pentagon Papers Case.
 Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.  

Smolla, Rodney A.  Suing the Press.   New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.    

Tribe, Lawrence H.  Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes.  New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1990.