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Cheating Justice: How Bush and Cheney Attacked the Rule of Law, Plotted to Avoid Prosecution, and What We Can Do about It cover

"George W. Bush and his administration are gone, but the wrongdoing they committed endures, exposed but unpunished.…No one is better qualified than Elizabeth Holtzman…to confront this legal and moral conundrum and show the way forward.…Fierce, bold and unflinching. A powerful, necessary book.” —Mark Danner, author of Stripping Bare the Body

"A passionate book grounded in law." —Kirkus Reviews

"Whether it will be in a court of law or a Truth Commission, history demands a reckoning so that future administrations don't also routinely act above the law. When that happens, Cheating Justice will be among the bill of particulars.”— Mark Green, co-author of The Book on Bush

“Here at last is a book for everyone who is outraged—or just bewildered—that Bush, Cheney and other top officials escaped prosecution for their many flagrant violations of the law.” —Katha Pollitt, author of Subject to Debate

“This book makes a vital contribution to addressing the abuses of power of the Bush administration.…Holtzman’s book offers a cogent and elaborate account of that time period and important insights into how we can prevent those from recurring.”—John Conyers Jr., author of The Constitution in Crisis

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Fragile Beginnings: Discoveries and Triumphs in the Newborn ICU cover

"Adam Wolfberg is uniquely qualified to write this powerful, illuminating, and much-needed book.…Takes readers through every aspect of the newborn intensive care unit. Truth, unsweetened by sentimentality, informs every page. I learned far more than I imagined there was to learn while being so caught up in his daughter's journey that I couldn't put the book down."—Rachel Simon, author of The Story of a Beautiful Girl

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 Straight The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality cover

"Amusing, readable synthesis…Blank darts from one intriguing, thought-provoking point to another…Blank offers the provocative solution that soon we will move on from our present fixation on the binary to a more fluid understanding…a controversial but evidence-based scholarly footnote to the chocolates and pink hearts of the season." —New York Times

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 The Accordion Family cover

"Combining personal interviews with careful analysis of economic trends…Newman sheds new light on the complex trade-offs that recent changes in intergenerational relationships and residence patterns involve for young adults, their parents, and society as a whole." —Stephanie Coontz, author of The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap

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