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Lawrence R. Douglas (born October 18, 1959) is an American legal scholar. He teaches in the department of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts, where he holds the James J. Grosfield Professorship. He is an author of journalism, fiction, and nonfiction books. Education Douglas received an A.B. from Brown University in 1982, a A.M. from Columbia University in 1986, and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1989. Career Much of Douglas's nonfiction has focused on legal responses to state-sponsored atrocities. His two novels have focused on the question of Jewish identity. In 2013, Douglas wrote about Guantanamo Bay detainee Abd al-Nashiri for Harper's Magazine. Douglas reviews books on legal topics for the Times Literary Supplement and is a contributing writer for The Guardian. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Institute for International Education, and the Carnegie Corporation. In 2022, he was a Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, Germany. Douglas has appeared in several documentaries, including the The Accountant of Auschwitz (2018), the TV mini-series The Devil Next Door (2019), the National Geographic documentary Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony (2023), and the BBC's The Devil's Confession: the Lost Eichmann Tapes (2023). His book The Right Wrong Man: John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial was a New York Times Editors' Choice book for 2016. His 2020 book Will He Go?: Trump and the Looming Election Meltdown in 2020 predicted many of Donald Trump's strategies for attempting to hold onto power. Douglas lives in Sunderland, Massachusetts. Fiction Honors Douglas has published two novels. The Catastrophist, about a professor struggling with fatherhood, was listed on Kirkus Reviews' best books of 2006 and shared a Silver Prize in fiction from the Independent Publisher Book Awards. The Vices, about a troubled philosopher, was listed as a best book of 2011 by New York Magazine and the New Statesman. Works Will He Go? Trump and the Looming Election Meltdown in 2020. Twelve Books. 2020. ISBN 978-1-5387-5187-9. The Right Wrong Man: John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial. Princeton University Press. 2016. ISBN 978-1-4008-7315-9. The Memory of Judgment: Making Law and History in the Trials of the Holocaust. Yale University Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0-300-10984-9. Lawrence Douglas; Alexander George (2007). Sense and Nonsensibility: Lampoons of Learning and Literature. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4165-8482-7. Editor Sarat, Austin; Douglas, Lawrence; Umphrey, Martha, eds. (2013). Law and War. Stanford University Press. ISBN 9781625343925. Sarat, Austin; Douglas, Lawrence; Umphrey, Martha, eds. (2014). Law and the Utopian Imagination. Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804790819. Sarat, Austin; Douglas, Lawrence; Umphrey, Martha, eds. (2019). Criminals and Enemies. University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 9781625343925. Novels The Vices. Other Press. 2011. ISBN 978-1-59051-416-0. The Catastrophist. Other Press. 2006. ISBN 978-1-5905-1219-7. References External links Judging the Courts: Wikinews interviews Prof. Lawrence Douglas. Faculty site at Amherst College. Lawrence Douglas in "The Accountant of Auschwitz." Lawrence Douglas's Op-Eds in The Guardian.. Discover the Lawrence Douglas popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Lawrence Douglas books.
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The People Speak
Howard ZinnCollected here is a brief history of America told through stories applauding the enduring spirit of dissent.To celebrate the millionth copy sold of his book, A People's H...
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Wicked Words 9
Various ArtistsWicked Words a collection of saucy and compelling short storiesWicked Words 9 is the latest in our everpopular series of Black Lace short story collections.Fun, filthy and sizzlin...
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Stark Mad Abolitionists
Robert K. Sutton & Bob DoleA town at the center of the United States becomes the site of an ongoing struggle for freedom and equality.In May, 1854, Massachusetts was in an uproar. A judge, bound by the Fugit...
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The Seven Ages of Man
James Innes-SmithWhat does it mean to be a man in the twentyfirst century? How can today's men lead a more fulfilling existence? Masculinity has reached a moment of crisis. From the erosion of unif...
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Hollywood Hellraisers
Robert Sellers'I don't know what people expect when they meet me. They seem to be afraid that I'm going to piss in the potted palm and slap them on the ass.' Marlon Brando'I should have been dea...
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Burning Angels
Bear GryllsA prehistoric corpse entombed within an Arctic glacier, crying tears of blood.A jungle island overrun by rabid primates escapees from a research laboratory's Hot Zone.A massive se...
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No Return
Mark Townsend'An incredible story, powerfully and beautifully told.' James O'BrienFive teenage friends leave Brighton to wage jihad in Syria. All except one are killed. This is their untold st...
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The Blooding
James McGee1812: Matthew Hawkwood, soldier turned spy, is stranded behind enemy lines, in America, a country at war with Britain.Heading for the safety of the Canadian border, Hawkwood’s rout...
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The Moment She Left
Susan LewisThe compelling novel from the bestselling author of Behind Closed Doors, No Child of Mine and Don't Let Me Go.KesterlyonSea is full of secrets. Some are darker than others; many ar...