Gail Jarrow is the author of novels, nonfiction books, and magazine articles and stories for readers age 8 through 18. Her children’s books have received awards from the American Booksellers Association, American Library Association, National Science Teachers Association and the Children’s Book Council, Public Library Association, the Society of School Librarians International, Scientific American, and Natural History
Magazine.
ROBERT H. JACKSON:
New Deal Lawyer,
Supreme Court Justice,
Nuremberg Prosecutor
Only one man in history served as United States Solicitor General, Attorney General, and Supreme Court Justice. Yet he never attended college or earned a law degree. In the first biography about Jackson published in fifty years, Jarrow details his journey from rural New York to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's inner circle, the Supreme Court Bench, and the Nuremberg Trial.
From Calkins Creek/Boyds Mills Press, ages 10 & up.
THE PRINTER'S TRIAL:
The Case of John Peter Zenger
and the Fight for a Free Press
This important trial of a newspaper printer in colonial New York helped shape the Bill of Rights. Today’s headlines show that the debate about First Amendment press freedom continues, almost three hundred years later.
Click the book jacket to learn more about the Zenger trial and Freedom of the Press.
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