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Now comprising 25 nations and 450 million citizens, the EU hasmore people, more wealth, and more votes on every internationalbody than the United States. It eschews military force but offersguaranteed health care and free university educations. And the new"United States of Europe" is determined to be a superpower. Tracingthe EU’s emergence from the ruins of World War II and its influenceeverywhere from international courts to supermarket shelves, T. R.Reid explores the challenge it poses to American political andeconomic supremacy. The United States of Europe is essentialreading.

In May 1787, in an atmosphere of crisis, delegates met inPhiladelphia to design a radically new form of government.Distinguished historian Richard Beeman captures as never before thedynamic of the debate and the characters of the men who laboredthat historic summer. Virtually all of the issues in dispute—theextent of presidential power, the nature of federalism, and, mostexplosive of all, the role of slavery—have continued to provokeconflict throughout our nation's history. This unprecedented booktakes readers behind the scenes to show how the world's mostenduring constitution was forged through conflict, compromise, andfragile consensus. As Gouverneur Morris, delegate of Pennsylvania,noted: "While some have boasted it as a work from Heaven, othershave given it a less righteous origin. I have many reasons tobelieve that it is the work of plain, honest men."

In this profound and fascinating book, the authors revisit anoverlooked Supreme Court decision that changed forever how justiceis carried out in the United States. In 1906, Ed Johnson was the innocnet black man found guilty ofthe brutal rape of Nevada Taylor, a white woman, and sentenced todie in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Two black lawyers, not even part ofthe original defense, appealed to the Supreme Court for a stay ofexecution, and the stay, incredibly, was granted. Frenzied withrage at the deision, locals responded by lynching Johnson, and whatensued was a breathtaking whirlwind of groundbreaking legal actionwhose import, Thurgood Marshall would claim, "has never been fullyexplained." Provocative, thorough, and gripping, Contempt of Courtis a long-overdue look at events that clearly depict the peculiarand tenuous relationship between justice and the law.