TY - BOOK AU - Lithwick,Dahlia TI - The best American legal writing 2009 SN - 9781607144663 (pbk.) : AV - PN 6071 B561 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Kaplan Publishing KW - Law KW - Literary collections KW - American essays KW - 21st century N1 - "Edited by Dahlia Lithwick"--Cover; Teaching law, testing ideas, Obama stood slightly apart / Jodi Kantor -- Google's gatekeepers / Jeffrey Rosen -- Tortured reasoning / David Rose -- Gun rights and our national identity crisis / Daniel Lazare -- The legacy / Steve Volk -- Mercenary for justice / Robert Kolker -- Camp Justice / Jeffrey Toobin -- McGreevey v. McGreevey / Michael Callahan -- A history of music torture in the War on Terror / Andy Worthington -- A moment's notice / Ben Hallman -- Katrina's hidden race war / A.C. Thompson -- Exhibit A / Emily Maloney -- The Fed who blew the whistle / Michael Isikoff -- Too weird for The Wire / Kevin Carey -- The truth about Jena / Amy Waldman -- Not your dad's divorce / Susanna Schrobsdorff -- The campus rape myth / Heather MacDonald -- "Justifiable homicides" are on the rise / Liliana Segura -- The judge makers / Robert Huber -- Justice after Bush / Scott Horton ER -