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A "New York Times "Notable Book of the Year
Scheduled for release in July 2007 as an ESPN original miniseries,
starring John Turturro as Billy Martin, Oliver Platt as George
Steinbrenner, and Daniel Sunjata as Reggie Jackson.
A kaleidoscopic portrait of New York City in 1977, "The Bronx Is
Burning "is the story of two epic battles: the fight between Yankee
Reggie Jackson and team manager Billy Martin, and the battle
between Mario Cuomo and Ed Koch for the city's mayorship. Buried
beneath these parallel conflicts--one for the soul of baseball, the
other for the soul of the city--was the subtext of race.
Deftly intertwined by journalist Jonathan Mahler, these braided Big
Apple narratives reverberate to reveal a year that also saw the
opening of Studio 54, the acquisition of the "New York Post" by
Rupert Murdoch, a murderer dubbed the "Son of Sam," the infamous
blackout, and the evolution of punk rock. As Koch defeated Cuomo,
and as Reggie Jackson rescued a team racked with dissension, 1977
became a year of survival--and also of hope.
INCLUDES A NEW EPILOGUE BY THE AUTHOR
"The Challenge" tells the inside story of an improbable act of
patriotism. At its center are Navy lawyer Charles Swift and
Georgetown law professor Neal Katyal, two men who, in the aftermath
of 9/11, found themselves defending an accused Yemeni terrorist
named Salim Hamdan in America's first military tribunals since
World War II. The entire system was stackd against them, and
Swift's superiors were pressing him to enter a guilty plea.
Instead, he and Katyal sued the Bush administration on their
client's behalf, arguing that his trial and treatment were illegal
and unconstitutional. In the spring of 2006, the case, "Hamdan v.
Rumsfeld," reached the Supreme Court. The resulting ruling changed
the legal landscape of the War on Terror, and it has been called
the Court's most important decision ever on presidential power and
the rule of law. Jonathan Mahler's gripping, detailed chronicle
follows the case from Yemen to Guantanamo to the courtrooms and the
chambers of power in Washington, delivering "the definitive work on
an epic Supreme Court case--and on the human beings behind the
headlines" (Jeffrey Toobin, author of "The Nine: Inside the Secret
World of the Supreme Court").
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