Justice for Sale
Graft, Greed, and a Crooked Federal Judge in 1930s Gotham
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The never-before-told story of Martin T. Manton, a corrupt federal appeals court judge in New York who was convicted in 1939 and sent to prison. From his misconduct, to his co-conspirators, to the sensational prosecution and trial, this is the exhaustively researched account of a discovery that shocked the nation.
Martin T. Manton was a corrupt federal appeals court judge in New York who was convicted in 1939 and sent to prison. At the time, this was a hugely important story: Manton was considered the highest-ranking judge in the United States after the nine Justices of the Supreme Court, and was nearly appointed to that august body in 1922. Yet his story has never been told in book-length form before, and never with the benefit of such exhaustive research. More than just a biography, Justice for Sale examines Manton’s misconduct in the context of the culture of corruption and organized crime that permeated New York City in the first part of the twentieth century. Dozens of others—prominent business executives, leading Wall Street lawyers, accountants, bankers, fixers, con men, another federal judge—participated in Manton’s crimes. The book profiles these unscrupulous and often colorful characters as well. It wasn’t until Manhattan D.A. and future presidential candidate Thomas Dewey’s successful pursuit of Manton, a federal grand jury investigation, and a sensational prosecution and trial in federal court that shocked the nation that Manton and his corrupt schemes were finally brought down.
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 172
People vs. Donald Trump is a fascinating inside account of the attempt to prosecute former president Donald Trump, written by one of the lawyers who worked on the case and resigned in protest when Manhattan’s district attorney refused to act.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bravo - Easy to Understand
- De Trisha en 02-09-23
De: Mark Pomerantz
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The Fall of the House of Zeus
- The Rise and Ruin of America's Most Powerful Trial Lawyer
- De: Curtis Wilkie
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 13 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 218
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 178
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 178
The Fall of the House of Zeus tells the story of Dickie Scruggs, arguably the most successful plaintiff's lawyer in America. A brother-in-law of Trent Lott, the former U.S. Senate majority leader, Scruggs made a fortune taking on mass tort lawsuits against "Big Tobacco" and the asbestos industries. He was hailed by Newsweek as a latter-day Robin Hood and portrayed in the movie The Insider as a dapper aviator-lawyer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The title says it all - The fall of Scruggs
- De Placeholder en 03-11-12
De: Curtis Wilkie
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Contempt
- A Memoir of the Clinton Investigation
- De: Ken Starr
- Narrado por: Ken Starr
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 359
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 322
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 321
Twenty years after the Starr Report and the Clinton impeachment, former special prosecutor Ken Starr finally shares his definitive account of this period in American history. Now Starr finally shares his unique perspective on the investigation that began with the Whitewater land deal and spread to a wide range of President Clinton's actions, including accusations of sexual harassment and perjury in the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Starr's narrative includes behind-the-scenes details that have never before emerged as well as a new analysis from the perspective of history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thought provoking and honest!
- De Sarah en 09-13-18
De: Ken Starr
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Conviction
- The Murder Trial That Powered Thurgood Marshall's Fight for Civil Rights
- De: Denver Nicks, John Nicks
- Narrado por: Ron Butler
- Duración: 6 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 94
On New Year's Eve, 1939, a horrific triple murder occurred in rural Oklahoma. Within a matter of days, investigators identified several suspects: convicts who had been at a craps game with one of the victims the night before. Also at the craps game was a young black farmer named W. D. Lyons. Political pressure mounted to find a villain. The governor's representative settled on Lyons, who was arrested, tortured into signing a confession, and tried for the murder. The NAACP's new Legal Defense and Education Fund sent its young chief counsel, Thurgood Marshall, to take part in the trial.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What a piece of history 💕
- De Private en 01-12-21
De: Denver Nicks, y otros
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Where Law Ends
- Inside the Mueller Investigation
- De: Andrew Weissmann
- Narrado por: George Newbern, Andrew Weissmann
- Duración: 14 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 755
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 655
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 650
In the first and only inside account of the Mueller investigation, one of the special counsel’s most trusted prosecutors breaks his silence on the team’s history-making search for the truth, their painstaking deliberations and costly mistakes, and Trump’s unprecedented efforts to stifle their report.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Riveting
- De Victoria Eriksson en 10-06-20
De: Andrew Weissmann
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Scorpions
- The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices
- De: Noah Feldman
- Narrado por: Cotter Smith
- Duración: 14 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 361
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 286
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 282
They began as close allies and friends of FDR, but the quest to shape a new Constitution led them to competition and sometimes outright warfare. Scorpions tells the story of four great justices: their relationship with Roosevelt, with each other, and with the turbulent world of the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War. It also serves as a history of the modern Constitution itself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A MOST HONOURABLE SWANSONG
- De Dudley H. Williams en 05-27-12
De: Noah Feldman
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The Teapot Dome Scandal
- How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House
- De: Laton McCartney
- Narrado por: William Hughes
- Duración: 10 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 138
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 93
The Teapot Dome scandal of the early 1920s was all about oil - hundreds of millions of dollars� worth of petroleum. When the scandal finally broke, the consequences were tremendous. President Harding's legacy was forever tarnished, while �Oil Cabinet� member Albert Fall was forced to resign and was imprisoned for a year. Others implicated in the affair suffered prison terms, commitment to mental hospitals, suicide, and even murder.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Harding's return to normalcy: corruption
- De Paul en 03-05-08
De: Laton McCartney
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The Quiet Don
- The Untold Story of Mafia Kingpin Russell Bufalino
- De: Matt Birkbeck
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 7 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 196
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 173
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 173
Secretive - even reclusive - Russell Bufalino quietly built his organized crime empire in the decades between Prohibition and the Carter presidency. His reach extended far beyond the coal country of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and quaint Amish farms near Lancaster. Bufalino had a hand in global, national, and local politics of the largest American cities, many of its major industries, and controlled the powerful Teamsters Union. His influence also reached the highest levels of Pennsylvania government and halls of Congress, and his legacy left a culture of corruption that continues to this day.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Important But Edited By Lawyers?
- De Ted en 04-03-14
De: Matt Birkbeck
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The Hellhound of Wall Street
- How Ferdinand Pecora's Investigation of the Great Crash Forever Changed American Finance
- De: Michael Perino
- Narrado por: George K. Wilson
- Duración: 14 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
In The Hellhound of Wall Street, Michael Perino recounts in riveting detail the 1933 hearings that put Wall Street on trial for the Great Crash. Never before in American history had so many financial titans been called to account before the public, and they had come within a few weeks of emerging unscathed. By the time Ferdinand Pecora, a Sicilian immigrant and former New York prosecutor, took over as chief counsel, the investigation had dragged on ineffectively for nearly a year and was universally written off as dead....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Story
- De Lynn en 03-22-11
De: Michael Perino
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Big Dirty Money
- The Shocking Injustice and Unseen Cost of White Collar Crime
- De: Jennifer Taub
- Narrado por: Eliza Foss
- Duración: 8 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 64
How ordinary Americans suffer when the rich and powerful use tax doges or break the law to get richer and more powerful - and how we can stop it. There is an elite crime spree happening in America, and the privileged perps are getting away with it. Selling loose cigarettes on a city sidewalk can lead to a choke-hold arrest, and death, if you are not among the top one percent.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Loss of Glass-Steagal has led to Cheating
- De Rajiv en 05-23-21
De: Jennifer Taub
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Boardwalk Empire
- The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City
- De: Nelson Johnson
- Narrado por: Joe Mantegna, Terence Winter (foreword)
- Duración: 11 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 688
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 439
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 445
From its inception, Atlantic City has always been a town dedicated to the fast buck, and this wide-reachinghistory offers a riveting account of its past 100 year, from the city's heyday as a Prohibition-era mecca of lawlessness to its rebirth as a legitimate casino resort in the modern era.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Unmasked History of Atlantic City
- De Steven Schuster en 08-07-10
De: Nelson Johnson
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The Price of Justice
- A True Story of Greed and Corruption
- De: Laurence Leamer
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 13 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 86
This nonfiction legal thriller traces the 14-year struggle of two lawyers to bring the most powerful coal baron in American history to justice. Don Blankenship, head of Massey Energy since the early 1990s, ran an industry that provides nearly half of America’s electric power. But wealth and influence weren’t enough for Blankenship and his company, as they set about destroying corporate and personal rivals, challenging the Constitution, purchasing the West Virginia judiciary, and willfully disregarding safety standards in the company’s mines - mines in which scores died unnecessarily.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A good story
- De Mr. en 10-06-13
De: Laurence Leamer
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The Hour of Fate
- Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Battle to Transform American Capitalism
- De: Susan Berfield
- Narrado por: Jennifer Woodward
- Duración: 11 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 57
A riveting narrative of Wall Street buccaneering, political intrigue and two of American history’s most colossal characters, struggling for mastery in an era of social upheaval and rampant inequality. Today, as the country again asks whether saving democracy means taming capital, the lessons of Roosevelt and Morgan’s time are more urgent than ever.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Engaging
- De Jean en 06-08-20
De: Susan Berfield
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Gideon's Trumpet
- How One Man, a Poor Prisoner, Took His Case to the Supreme Court - and Changed the Law of the United States
- De: Anthony Lewis
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 7 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 65
A history of the landmark case of Clarence Earl Gideon's fight for the right to legal counsel.
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5 out of 5 stars
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best book on the subject
- De J.B. Price en 06-12-18
De: Anthony Lewis
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Profiles in Corruption
- Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite
- De: Peter Schweizer
- Narrado por: Charles Constant
- Duración: 7 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,004
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,697
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,688
In Profiles in Corruption, Schweizer offers a deep-dive investigation into the private finances and secrets deals of some of America’s top political leaders. And, as usual, he doesn’t disappoint, with never-before-reported revelations that uncover corruption and abuse of power - all backed up by a mountain of corporate documents and legal filings from around the globe. Learn about how they are making sweetheart deals, generating side income, bending the law to their own benefits, using legislation to advance their own interests, and much more.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enlightening & Horrifying!!
- De Kay Lo en 01-22-20
De: Peter Schweizer
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Louis D. Brandeis
- A Life
- De: Melvin I Urofsky
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 35 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 158
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 120
The first full-scale biography in 25 years of one of the most important and distinguished justices to sit on the Supreme Court - an audiobook that reveals Louis D. Brandeis the reformer, lawyer, and jurist, and Brandeis the man, in all of his complexity, passion, and wit. As a lawyer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, he pioneered how modern law is practiced.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a Listen to Louis D. Brandeis
- De J en 07-11-10
De: Melvin I Urofsky
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Root and Branch
- Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation
- De: Rawn James Jr.
- Narrado por: Dominic Hoffman
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 64
The Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education is widely considered a seminal point in the battle to end segregation, but it was in fact the culmination of a decades-long legal campaign. Root and Branch is the epic story of the two fiercely dedicated lawyers who led the fight from county courthouses to the marble halls of the Supreme Court, and, in the process, laid the legal foundations of the civil rights movement.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superb story
- De Philo-sophia en 01-26-12
De: Rawn James Jr.
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Justice for Sale
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- Michael L. Cook
- 09-17-23
Stunning
Superb in every respect. Bought the book and read it during listening breaks. Timely reminder of how justice can be manipulated. Written effectively and clearly. A story that has been, until now, shrouded in mystery. Also shows how well-placed people (lawyers, judges, politicians) essentially looked away from wrongdoing.
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