For weeks following the 2000 presidential election the world was gripped by the struggles between supporters of Texas Governor George W. Bush, and Vice President Al Gore, over who would become the forty-third president of the United States. It had been many generations since Americans experienced the distinctive drama of […]
In this fascinating book, Ryan Holiday reveals a meticulously plotted conspiracy against Gawker that would end with a $140 million dollar judgment against Gawker, its bankruptcy, and with Nick Denton, Gawker’s CEO and founder, out of a job. For years, Thiel had searched endlessly for a solution to what he’d come […]
In "The Trial of Jack Ruby," John Kaplan and Jon R. Waltz present a sophisticated dissection of the case, intelligently discussing legal concepts like the insanity defense and offering pointed critiques of the childishly squabbling attorneys on both sides. Ruby was convicted in 1964; he successfully appealed but died of […]