Adam Cohen
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"One of America's great miscarriages of justice, the Supreme Court's infamous 1927 Buck v. Bell ruling made government sterilization of "undesirable" citizens the law of the land New York Times bestselling author Adam Cohen tells the story in Imbeciles of one of the darkest moments in the American legal tradition: the Supreme Court's decision to champion eugenic sterilization for the greater good of the country. In 1927, when the nation was caught...
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"From New York Times bestselling author Adam Cohen, a revelatory examination of the conservative direction of the Supreme Court over the last fifty years since the Nixon administration. In the early 1960s, the Supreme Court led by Chief Justice Earl Warren was at the height of its power, expanding civil rights for the poor and minorities and promoting equality in dramatic ways through rulings such as Brown v Board of Education and establishing the...
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Nothing to Fear brings to life a fulcrum moment in American history--the tense, feverish first one hundred days of FDR's presidency, when he and his inner circle completely reinvented the role of the federal government in response to the Crash of 1929 and its consequences.
11) Eddy's dream
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A group of children helps one of their classmates stop spoiling their play and follow his own dreams.
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Martha Stewart carved herself a niche in a man's world. She built an empire that inspired a generation of women and took homemaking out of the kitchen and into the stock market. From her indictment to stepping down as CEO of the company she built - Martha, Inc., and shows a side of her that you have never seen before.
14) American yogi
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"... [A] delightful autobiographical documentary about a nice Jewish boy from Miami who travels to San Francisco for the "Summer of Love" and returns a hippie. Later, as a successful but dissatisfied businessman, he discovers Ram Dass's iconic book "Be Here Now" about the Indian Saint Maharajji and decides to travel to India in search of a more meaningful life."--Container.