An edition of The challenge (2009)

The challenge

how a maverick Navy officer and a young law professor risked their careers to defend the Constitution--and won

1st Picador ed.

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An edition of The challenge (2009)

The challenge

how a maverick Navy officer and a young law professor risked their careers to defend the Constitution--and won

1st Picador ed.

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Picador
Language
English
Pages
348

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Subjects

Chauffeurs, Trials, litigation, Law and legislation, International and municipal law, Military courts, Prevention, Combatants and noncombatants (International law), Terrorism, Jurisdiction, Legal status, laws, Rule of law, Constitutional law, united states, cases, United states, navy, biography, Lawyers, biography

People

Donald Rumsfeld (1932-), Salim Ahmed Hamdan (1970-)

Places

United States
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The challenge: how a maverick Navy officer and a young law professor risked their careers to defend the Constitution--and won
2009, Picador
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Table of Contents

The JAG
The trials
VUCA
The professor
A civil power
A drowning man
The lawsuit
Tugging the lion's tail
"Oh, I doubt that seriously, sir"
"Judge assigned
we won the lottery"
An indefinite recess
"We're going to crush you"
Who we are
The Supreme Court responds
Getting to five
Where's the food?
The countdown
The argument
The heroes of Guanta namo?
Epilogue.

Edition Notes

"Portions of this work originally appeared, in somewhat different form, in the June 13, 2004, January 8, 2006, and July 9, 2006, issues of The New York Times Magazine"--Title page verso.

Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-328) and index.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
343.73/0143
Library of Congress
KF225.H36 M34 2009,

The Physical Object

Pagination
348 pages ;
Number of pages
348

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26338084M
Internet Archive
isbn_9780312428853
ISBN 10
0312428855
ISBN 13
9780312428853
OCLC/WorldCat
277196610

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