Diane Kiesel
Diane Kiesel is a judge of the Supreme Court of New York. A former journalist, she is the author of Domestic Violence: Law Policy and Practice, published in 2017 by the Carolina Academic Press, and She Can Bring Us Home: Dr. Dorothy Boulding Ferebee, Civil Rights Pioneer, published in 2015 by the University of Nebraska Press/Potomac Books. She is currently at work on The Trials of Charlie Chaplin: How the Federal Government and One Woman Drove The Little Tramp from the United States, to be published by the University of Michigan Press.
11 entries by Diane Kiesel
The Enchanters: A Novel
By James Ellroy
This over-the-top potboiler may be too much for all but the author’s diehard fans.
The Case of the Married Woman
By Antonia Fraser
A discarded wife demands equal protection under the law.
Scoundrel
By Sarah Weinman
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A page-turning saga of true crime and false narratives.
Judgment and Mercy: The Turbulent Life and Times of the Judge Who Condemned the Rosenbergs
By Martin J. Siegel
The problematic jurist who gave Julius and Ethel the chair.
A Woman’s Life Is a Human Life: My Mother, Our Neighbor, and the Journey from Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Justice
By Felicia Kornbluh
An admirable, overly ambitious account of the road to Roe.
The Case of the Married Woman: Caroline Norton and Her Fight for Justice for Women
By Antonia Fraser
A discarded wife demands equal protection under the law.
Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free
By Sarah Weinman
A page-turning saga of true crime and false narratives.
Widespread Panic: A Novel
By James Ellroy
Dames, drunks, and dirty cops run roughshod over 1950s L.A. in this hardboiled, hard-to-put-down tale.
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An engrossing look at early 20th-century lawyer Nathan Burkan and his larger-than-life clients.
14 Miles: Building the Border Wall
By DW Gibson
This valuable yet overly detailed look at Trump’s pet project illustrates why good fences don’t always make good neighbors.
The Trial and Execution of the Traitor George Washington
By Charles Rosenberg
What if the father of our country had gotten caught by the British?