Legal Spectator & More By Jacob A. Stein A compilation of Washington, DC, attorney Jacob Stein's essays about lawyers, judges, clients, literature, and popular culture. The essays in this volume have previously appeared in Washington Lawyer, American Scholar, the Times Literary Supplement, and Wilson Quarterly. Hardcover  ·  ISBN 978-1-58733-179-4  ·  $25.95 Buy hardbound from Bookshop Buy from Amazon (opens in new window) Buy from Barnes & Noble (opens in new window) Softcover  ·  ISBN 1-58733-009-1  ·  $16.95 Buy softcover from Bookshop Buy from Amazon (opens in new window) Buy from Barnes & Noble (opens in new window) Ebook  ·  EISBN 9781587332302  Buy ebook from TheCapitol.Net  $4.99 Buy, download and read on your computer using Adobe Reader (PDF)   This ebook is sold with a Limited License. 1.5 mb at FastSpring   (opens in new window)  2007  ·  5 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 1  ·  320 pages    Softcover  $16.95 ISBN 1-58733-009-1 Hardcover  $25.95 ISBN 978-1-58733-179-4  ·   Available from your bookseller or online Formats Hardbound   $17.95 Softcover     $12.95 Ebook          $4.99

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Preface 

Lawyers

Was It Me or My Case They Didn't Like?
The "Late" Mr. LeRos
Farewell to Hugh Lynch
Irving Younger and Joe DiMaggio
Charles F. C. Ruff
Get Me Lechford 
The Domestic Relations Man
Atticus Finch, LLP-Formerly PC, Formerly LLC
All That Can Be Said
Civility as an Art Form in Diplomacy and the Law
30 Golden Rules
Character and Reputation 
Worry 
How to Get a Confession
Pawnshops, Pearls, and Basic Black 
The Investment Building
A Trial That Never Was
Timing Is Everything 
I Need a Continuance
Indecision
May I Say Who's Calling?
The Discoverers 
Cold Cash Upfront

Judges

The Courthouse
The Visiting Judge
Outrageous in New York
A Man of Letters

People

Comes the Revolution You'll Pay the Two Dollars
Señor Wences
Curtain Up
Words and Music
An Evening With Louis Armstrong
Peter Arno Meets Somerset Maugham
The Eponymous Mr. Ponzi
Writing Like Oliver Wendell Holmes
Bing Crosby, Gus Edwards, O. Henry, and Alias Jimmy Valentine
Joe Borkin,Thurman Arnold, Sukarno, and British Petroleum
Cohan and Harris and the Law of Being on the Square
Rosa Lewis, the Old Cavendish, and Taking the Fifth
Dr. Bernhardi
Clinton, Asquith, and Schopenhauer
General Buck Lanham, Ernest Hemingway, and That Woman in Venice

This & That

We Meet by Chance
A Jubilee Year
Arrested in Old Havana
Congressional Hearings, Pardons, and Fall Guys
Daumier Motions in Court
Fighting the Blues With the Fine Arts
In a Little Tin Box
Interrogation
Keep Your Big Mouth Shut
Lists
Multiplicity
Spies are Back at 810 F Street
The Columbian Building
Success
Keeping Secrets

Legal Spectator & More
By Jacob A. Stein
 

2007  ·  5 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 1  ·  320 pages  
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