Howard Ball
1) The Supreme Court in the Intimate Lives of Americans: Birth, Sex, Marriage, Childrearing, and Death
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English
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Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2003
Personal rights, such as the right to procreate-;or not-;and the right to die generate endless debate. This book maps out the legal, political, and ethical issues swirling around personal rights. Howard Ball shows how the Supreme Court has grappled with the right to reproduce and to abort, and takes on the issue of auto-euthanasia and assisted suicide, from Karen Ann Quinlan through Kevorkian and just recently...
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English
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Taking the Fight South provides a timely and telling reminder of the vigilance democracy requires if racial justice is to be fully realized.
Distinguished historian and civil rights activist Howard Ball has written dozens of books during his career, including the landmark biography of Thurgood Marshall, A Defiant Life, and the critically acclaimed Murder in Mississippi, chronicling the Mississippi Burning killings. In Taking the Fight South, arguably...
3) The USA Patriot Act of 2001: balancing civil liberties and national security : a reference handbook
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ABC-CLIO
Pub. Date
[2004]
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English
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Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[1998]
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English
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"Thurgood Marshall's extraordinary contribution to civil rights and overcoming racism is more topical than ever, as the national debate on race and the overturning of affirmative action policies make headlines nationwide. Howard Ball, author of eighteen books on the Supreme Court and the federal judiciary, has done copious research for this incisive biography to present an authoritative portrait of Marshall the jurist." "Using race as the defining...
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ABC-CLIO, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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"The Right to Die: A Reference Handbook provides a complete examination of right-to-die issues in the United States that dissects the complex arguments for and against a person's liberty to receive a physician's assistance to hasten death. It covers the legal aspects and the politics of the right-to-die controversy, analyzes the battles over the right to die in state and federal courts, and supplies primary source documents that illustrate the political,...
