LAWRENCE GOLDSTONE

A potent and original examination of how the Supreme Court subverted justice and empowered the Jim Crow era.In the following years following the Civil War, the 13th Amendment abolished slavery; the 14th conferred citizenship and equal protection under the law to white and black; and the 15th gave black American males the right to vote. In 1875, the...

On September 17, 1787, at the State House in Philadelphia, thirty-nine men from twelve states, after months of often bitter debate, signed America146;s Constitution. Yet very few of the delegates, at the start, had had any intention of creating a nation that would last. Most were driven more by pragmatic, regional interests than by idealistic...

In the waning days of his presidency, in January 1801, John Adams made some historic appointments to preserve his Federalist legacy. Foremost among them, he named his secretary of state, John Marshall, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court-neither of them anticipating that Marshall would soon need to decide the most crucial case in Supreme Court...

1534, Paris. A student at the Catholic College de Montaigu, serving as a courier for the Inquisition, is murdered by members of an extreme Lutheran sect for the packet of letters he is carrying. His friend and fellow classmate Amaury de Faverges-the illegitimate son of the Duke of Savoy and an expert in astronomy and natural science-is recruited as...

In the tradition of Caleb Carrs The Alienist and Matthew Pearls The Dante Club, this mesmerizing forensic thriller thrusts the reader into the operating rooms, drawing rooms, and back alleys of 1889 Philadelphia, as a doctor grapples with the principles of scientific process to track a daring killer.In the morgue of a Philadelphia hospital,...

Filadelfia, rok 1889. Młody adept sztuki medycznej, doktor Ephraim Carroll, wybiera się z kolegą po fachu, George’em Turkiem, na wyprawę do zakazanych rejonów miasta: podłych teatrzyków, obskurnych spelunek. Gdy Turk kolejnego dnia… nie pojawia się w szpitalu, Carroll nabiera podejrzeń i rozpoczyna poszukiwania. Niestety przybywa za późno, kolega...