Conviction: The Murder Trial That Powered Thurgood Marshall's Fight for Civil Rights
By: Denver Nicks
3.97
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
On New Year’s Eve, 1939, a horrific triple murder occurred in rural Oklahoma. Within a matter of da…
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"ليس هناك والله خوف أعظم نت خوف الانسان حين لا يعرف السبب"-Michael Crichton, Eaters of the Dead
"...thus do strange things cease to be strange upon repetition."-Michael Crichton, Eaters of the Dead
"يجب أن يكون الانسان حكيما باعتدال ولكن ليس مفرط الحكمة حتى لا يعرف قدره مسبقا"-Michael Crichton, Eaters of the Dead
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4.05
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3.75
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4.24
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"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
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31. Conviction: The Murder Trial That Powered Thurgood Marshall's Fight for Civil Rights
By: Denver Nicks
3.97
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
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