Best new england us biographies according to redditors
We found 11 Reddit comments discussing the best new england us biographies. We ranked the 5 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 11 Reddit comments discussing the best new england us biographies. We ranked the 5 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
It's not an uncommon style, and one I'm fond of.
If you liked that, you'll also like Ship of Gold in a Deep Blue Sea, The Perfect Storm and Blackhawk Down. The books, not the movies.
I am a rising 3L. It would have been helpful if you gave a bit more information about why in the world you're considering becoming a lawyer. Since you didn't, I'm just going to give you a huge list of links to materials which have informed my general philosophical understanding of law, justice, and the legal profession and hope you find some of it interesting.
Music:
Dead Prez - Fuck the Law
Crass - Bloody Revolution
GG Allin - Fuck Authority
Wesley Willis - It’s Against the Law
Wilco - Against the Law
Golf Wang - Earl
MellowHype - Fuck the Police
KottonMouth Kings and ICP - Fuck the Police
RATM - Fuck the Police
Dead Kennedys - Police Truck
Choking Victim - Money
Anti-Flag - No Borders, No Nations
Utah Phillips - I Will Not Obey
Woody Guthrie - Jesus Christ
Todos Tus Muertos - Gente Que No
David Wrench - A Radical Song
Books:
Michel Foucault - Discipline and Punish(PDF Link)
[Thomas Geoghegan - The Law in Shambles](http://www.amazon.com/Law-Shambles-Thomas-
Geoghegan/dp/097281969X)
Rawn James Jr. - Root and Branch
Deborah Rhode - In the Interests of Justice: Reforming the Legal Profession
Alan Dershowitz - Letters to a Young Lawyer
Richard Posner - Overcoming Law (specifically read "The Material Basis of Jurisprudence")
Susan Eaton - The Children in Room E4
Sunny Schwartz - Dreams from the Monster Factory: A Tale of Prison, Redemption, and One Woman's Fight to Restore Justice to All
Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete?
Alan Dershowitz - The Best Defense
John Rawls - A Theory of Justice
Robert Nozick - Anarchy, State and Utopia
Ward Churchill - Perversions of Justice: Indigenous Peoples and Anglo-American Laws
J. Shoshanna Ehrlich - Who Decides? The Abortion Rights of Teens
Film:
Judgment at Nuremberg
A Civil Action
To Kill a Mockingbird
I have three.
The first that comes to mind is an older book, called "Storm." It inspired my dad to become a meteorology major (sadly, the U.S. Air Force put him to use as a navigator instead of weather forecaster). The hero / heroine of the fictional story is a massive El Niño / atmospheric river event that rocks California, told in part from the perspective of a young meteorologist. It's an older book (copyright 1941), but despite being short on contemporary weather science, it's solid on the fundamentals, and the major criticism of it is that it's too technical. As a record of a storm pattern that often afflicts the U.S. West Coast (and historically has been catastrophic at times) and is only now coming to be fully appreciated, it's still relevant, even though it's out of print, but Amazon offers it used.
"Isaac's Storm" is a national bestseller about the greatest natural disaster in U.S. history, the 1900 Galveston hurricane, which killed 6,000 people. It talks a lot about the weather that created it and how meteorologists of the time failed to anticipate it (and why). It's a gripping, well-written account of a storm that shocked the nation and devastated a city that might have otherwise become Texas' largest. It's written by Erik Larson, who is one of the great nonfiction writers of our time.
You are probably familiar with the movie "The Perfect Storm" but maybe not with the book that inspired it, also a national bestseller, titled "The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea" which dwells a lot more than the movie on the weather science behind the storm. In fact, the phrase "a perfect storm of" didn't exist before the book. If I recall correctly, it talks about how three separate weather events converged over the NW Atlantic to create a truly wicked storm that caught a number of mariners off guard with deadly consequences for some of them. The movie is pretty good (certainly better than that joke "Twister" that someone recommended), but it's a little short on weather geekery.
Sorry, no colorful pictures in any of these books, but the stories in them are plenty colorful. Congrats on your awesome study choice.
Black Mass is literally about Bulger & the FBI. Might as well start with that since that's the movie Depp is filming in town. If you're into that stuff, Rat Bastards. is supposed to be great, though I didn't read, my old man loved it.
Here you go:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0393337014/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_JFfSAb07P7J0J
Interesting story but a terrrrrrribly boring book. You can see reviews here, if interested.
Check out the book 3000 degrees for full story.
In the Heart of the Sea tells the true story that inspired Moby Dick, and is a great read.
If you like non-fiction, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage and The Perfect Storm are also very good.
The Perfect Storm
It was written very well. Even if you've seen the movie, this is worth reading.
3000 degrees was pretty good, about the Worchester cold storage fire.