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001 2011013693
003 DLC
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008 110331s2011 nyua 001 0 eng
010 $a 2011013693
020 $a9780805092059 (hbk.)
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050 00 $aKF4764$b.G74 2011
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100 1 $aGreenwald, Glenn.
245 10 $aWith liberty and justice for some :$bhow the law is used to destroy equality and protect the powerful /$cGlenn Greenwald.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bMetropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co.,$c2011.
300 $a290 p. :$bill. ;$c22 cm.
500 $aIncludes index.
520 $a"From "the most important voice to have entered the political discourse in years" (Bill Moyers), a scathing critique of the two-tiered system of justice that has emerged in AmericaFrom the nation's beginnings, the law was to be the great equalizer in American life, the guarantor of a common set of rules for all. But over the past four decades, the principle of equality before the law has been effectively abolished. Instead, a two-tiered system of justice ensures that the country's political and financial class is virtually immune from prosecution, licensed to act without restraint, while the politically powerless are imprisoned with greater ease and in greater numbers than in any other country in the world. Starting with Watergate, continuing on through the Iran-Contra scandal, and culminating with the crimes of the Bush era, Glenn Greenwald lays bare the mechanisms that have come to shield the elite from accountability. He shows how the media, both political parties, and the courts have abetted a process that has produced torture, war crimes, domestic spying, and financial fraud. Cogent, sharp, and urgent, this is a no-holds-barred indictment of a profoundly un-American system that sanctions immunity at the top and mercilessness for everyone else"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"A narrative examining how elites have been able to skirt the system with impunity"--$cProvided by publisher.
505 0 $aThe origin of elite immunity -- Immunity spreads to the private sector -- Too big to jail -- Immunity by presidential decree -- American justice's second tier.
650 0 $aEquality before the law$zUnited States.
650 0 $aImpunity$zUnited States.
650 0 $aSociological jurisprudence$zUnited States.
650 0 $aLaw$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States.
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://www.netread.com/jcusers/1388/2311841/image/lgcover.9780805092059.jpg