 | Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $1.49 National Book Award 2004
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 | In Cold Blood: A True Account of A Multiple Murder and Its Consequences (Essential Penguin) by Truman Capote
Buy used from: $4.19 Edgar Allan Poe Award, Best Fact Crime 1966
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 | Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi (Blacks in the New World) by John Dittmer
Buy new: $21.80 / Used from: $7.24 Bancroft Award 1995
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 | The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece (P.S.) by Edward Dolnick
Buy new: $10.76 / Used from: $4.16 Edgar Allan Poe Award, Best Fact Crime 2006
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 | The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788-1800 by Stanley Elkins
Buy new: $31.70 / Used from: $9.49 Bancroft Award 1994
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 | Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.91 Pulitzer Prize, History, 2001
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 | The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics by the Late Don E. Fehrenbacher
Buy new: $19.34 / Used from: $10.75 Pulitzer Prize, History, 1978
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 | The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction by Linda Gordon
Buy new: $18.37 / Used from: $6.75 Bancroft Award 2000
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 | We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.87 National Book Critics Circle Award 1998
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 | A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.01 National Book Critics Circle Award 1995.
Inside a complex tort action against a manufacturer for pollution that allegedly caused leukemia in the plaintiffs' families.
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 | The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860 (Studies in Legal History) by Morton J. Horwitz
Buy new: $31.45 / Used from: $6.93 Bancroft Award 1978
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 | Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow by Jacqueline Jones
Buy new: $12.82 / Used from: $0.01 Bancroft Prize, 1984.
The subtitle -- "Black women, work, and the family, from slavery to the present" -- says a lot. Consider all the ways law shapes families and workplaces and you see the legal connection.
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 | Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts (Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History) by Alexander Keyssar
Buy new: $60.00 / Used from: $2.90 Frederick Jackson Turner Award 1987
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 | From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality by Michael J. Klarman
Buy new: $17.09 / Used from: $8.00 Bancroft Award 2005
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 | Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris by Richard Kluger
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $0.44 Pulitzer Prize, General Non-Fiction, 1997
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 | Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $3.82 Pulitzer Prize, History, 1998
The Scopes trial, the events that led up to it, and its aftermath. Particularly interesting is the section analyzing the Scopes myths, how they diverged from the actual trial, and why.
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 | The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.36 Edgar Allan Poe Award, Best Fact Crime 2004
America's first serial killer was luring young women to his specially-designed building during the Chicago World's Fair. The book interweaves the stories of the Fair and the murderer (who is captured and tried in the end).
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 | The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784-1860 by Suzanne Lebsock
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $1.03 Bancroft Award 1985.
Using historical sources such as conveyances, wills, and newspapers, Lebsock pieces together the legal status and lives of free women (both whites and free blacks) in Petersburg, VA, before the Civil War. Fascinating.
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 | Origins of the Fifth Amendment: The Right Against Self-Incrimination by Leonard W. Levy
Buy new: $16.20 / Used from: $4.50 Pulitzer Prize, History, 1969
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 | Gideon's Trumpet by Anthony Lewis
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.22 Edgar Allan Poe Award, Best Fact Crime 1965
Inside the case that established a right to a court-appointed lawyer for a poor defendant.
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 | Carry Me Home : Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution by Diane McWhorter
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $1.19 Pulitzer Prize, General Non-Fiction, 2002
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 | Naming Names by Victor S. Navasky
Buy new: $25.13 / Used from: $2.00 National Book Award 1982
Hollywood faces the House Un-American Activities Committee.
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 | The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties by Mark E. Neely Jr.
Buy new: $34.40 / Used from: $4.61 Pulitzer Prize, History, 1992
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 | Workers on the Waterfront: Seamen, Longshoremen, and Unionism in the 1930s (Working Class in American History) by Bruce Nelson
Buy used from: $40.00 Frederick Jackson Turner Award 1989
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 | Anarchy, State, And Utopia by Robert Nozick
Buy used from: $10.83 National Book Award 1975
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 | A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power
Buy used from: $0.96 National Book Critics Circle Award 2002;
Pulitzer Prize, General Non-Fiction, 2003
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| Death & the Supreme Court
Buy used from: $0.99 Edgar Allan Poe Award, Best Fact Crime 1962
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 | Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon
Buy new: $12.92 / Used from: $7.20 Edgar Allan Poe Award, Best Fact Crime 1992
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 | Blind Eye: The Terrifying Story Of A Doctor Who Got Away With Murder by James B. Stewart
Buy used from: $2.27 Edgar Allan Poe Award, Best Fact Crime 2000
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 | Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer (P.S.) by James L. Swanson
Buy new: $11.18 / Used from: $3.88 Edgar Allan Poe Award, Best Fact Crime 2007
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 | The Supreme Court in United States History, Vol. 1: 1789-1821 by Charles Warren
Buy new: $34.95 / Used from: $31.27 Pulitzer Prize, History, 1923
(Look for Vol. 2 and Vol. 3 as well.)
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