Diane Kiesel
Diane Kiesel is a former 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. Her next book, When Charlie Met Joan: The Tragedy of the Chaplin Trials and the Failings of American Justice, will be published in 2024 by the University of Michigan Press.
24 entries by Diane Kiesel
Raised by a Serial Killer: Discovering the Truth About My Father
By April Balascio
An utterly riveting recollection of life with a monster.
A rollicking if under-sourced look at mobsters in the Oval.
The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne
By Kate Winkler Dawson
What should’ve been a page-turner is more of a slog.
Twisting in Air: The Sensational Rise of a Hollywood Falling Horse
By Carol Bradley
A scintillating, sickening look at how we used to treat movie mounts.
The Enchanters
By James Ellroy
This over-the-top potboiler may be too much for all but the author’s diehard fans.
The Electrocution of Baby Lawrence: A Murder That Shook a New England Town
By James E. Overmyer
Did a wealthy lawyer intentionally kill his Down Syndrome son?
The rollicking tale of a Gatsby-esque rake who delighted in diamonds.
The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
By Griffin Dunne
An affecting, poignant recollection of life among the Hollywood literati.
On Sex and Gender: A Commonsense Approach
By Doriane Lambelet Coleman
Can we at least talk about what it means to be male or female?
Judgment and Mercy
By Martin J. Siegel
The problematic jurist who gave Julius and Ethel the chair.
A recent biography reveals James Ellroy to be every bit as over-the-top as his hardboiled detectives.
The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
By Michael Wolraich
The tawdry case that helped FDR win the White House.
Decadent Women: Yellow Book Lives
By Jad Adams
Meet the ladies behind a cutting-edge (if little-remembered) magazine.
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?