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A Second Reckoning

Race, Injustice, and the Last Hanging in Annapolis

By: Scott D. Seligman

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A Second Reckoning

Race, Injustice, and the Last Hanging in Annapolis

By: Scott D. Seligman

2022 IPPY Silver Medal 2021 Foreword Indies Gold Winner for History 2021-22 Reader Views Literary Awards Silver Medal Winner 2021 Best Book Awards Finalist in US History sponsored by American Book Fest A Second Reckoning tells the story of John Snowden, a Black man accused of the murder of a pregnant white woman in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1917. He refused to confess despite undergoing torture, was tried--through legal shenanigans--by an all-white jury, and was found guilty on circumstantial evidence and sentenced to death. Despite hair-raising, last-minute appeals to spare his life, Snowden was hanged for the crime. But decades after his death, thanks to tireless efforts by interested citizens and family members who believed him a victim of a "legal lynching," Snowden was pardoned posthumously by the governor of Maryland in 2001. A Second Reckoning uses Snowden's case to bring posthumous pardons into the national conversation about amends for past racial injustices. Scott D. Seligman argues that the repeal of racist laws and policies must be augmented by reckoning with America's judicial past, especially in cases in which prejudice may have tainted procedures or perverted verdicts, evidence of bias survives, and a constituency exists for a second look. Seligman illustrates the profound effects such acts of clemency have on the living and ends with a siren call for a reexamination of such cases on the national level by the Department of Justice, which officially refuses to consider them.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1640124861

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Murder in Manchuria

The True Story of a Jewish Virtuoso, Russian Fascists, a French Diplomat, and a Japanese Spy in Occupied China

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Murder in Manchuria

The True Story of a Jewish Virtuoso, Russian Fascists, a French Diplomat, and a Japanese Spy in Occupied China

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In Murder in Manchuria, Scott D. Seligman explores an unsolved murder set amid the chaos that reigned in China in the run-up to World War II. The story unfolds against the backdrop of a three-country struggle for control of Manchuria—an area some called China’s “Wild East”—and an explosive mixture of nationalities, religions, and ideologies. Semyon Kaspé, a young Jewish musician, is kidnapped, tortured, and ultimately murdered by disaffected, antisemitic White Russians, secretly acting on the orders of Japanese military overlords who covet his father’s wealth. When local authorities deliberately slow-walk the search for the kidnappers, a young French diplomat takes over and launches his own investigation. Part cold-case thriller and part social history, the true, tragic saga of Kaspé is told in the context of the larger, improbable story of the lives of the twenty thousand Jews who called Harbin home at the beginning of the twentieth century. Scott D. Seligman recounts the events that led to their arrival and their hasty exodus—and solves a crime that has puzzled historians for decades.

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U of Nebraska Press

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164012604X

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Chinese Business Etiquette

A Guide to Protocol, Manners, and Culture in thePeople's Republic of China

By: Scott D. Seligman

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Chinese Business Etiquette

A Guide to Protocol, Manners, and Culture in thePeople's Republic of China

By: Scott D. Seligman

East-West business is booming as thousands of people flock to China. The author, with 25 years of experience dealing with the Chinese, provides up-to-date advice on how to succeed, avoid gaffes, interpret behaviour and make positive impressions.

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Grand Central Publishing

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0446551147

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The Great Kosher Meat War Of 1902

Immigrant Housewives and the Riots That Shook New York City

By: Scott D. Seligman

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The Great Kosher Meat War Of 1902

Immigrant Housewives and the Riots That Shook New York City

By: Scott D. Seligman

2020-21 Reader Views Literary Award, Gold Medal Winner 2021 Independent Publisher Book Award, Gold Medal Winner 2020 National Jewish Book Award, Finalist 2020 American Book Fest Best Book Awards Finalist in the U.S. History category 2020 Foreword Indies Book of the Year Finalist In the wee hours of May 15, 1902, three thousand Jewish women quietly took up positions on the streets of Manhattan's Lower East Side. Convinced by the latest jump in the price of kosher meat that they were being gouged, they assembled in squads of five, intent on shutting down every kosher butcher shop in New York's Jewish quarter. What was conceived as a nonviolent effort did not remain so for long. Customers who crossed the picket lines were heckled and assaulted and their parcels of meat hurled into the gutters. Butchers who remained open were attacked, their windows smashed, stock ruined, equipment destroyed. Brutal blows from police nightsticks sent women to local hospitals and to court. But soon Jewish housewives throughout the area took to the streets in solidarity, while the butchers either shut their doors or had their doors shut for them. The newspapers called it a modern Jewish Boston Tea Party. The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902 tells the twin stories of mostly uneducated women immigrants who discovered their collective consumer power and of the Beef Trust, the midwestern cartel that conspired to keep meat prices high despite efforts by the U.S. government to curtail its nefarious practices. With few resources and little experience but steely determination, this group of women organized themselves into a potent fighting force and, in their first foray into the political arena in their adopted country, successfully challenged powerful, vested corporate interests and set a pattern for future generations to follow.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1640124101

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The Third Degree

The Triple Murder That Shook Washington and Changed American Criminal Justice

By: Scott D. Seligman

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The Third Degree

The Triple Murder That Shook Washington and Changed American Criminal Justice

By: Scott D. Seligman

If you’ve ever seen an episode of Law and Order, you can probably recite your Miranda rights by heart. But you likely don’t know that these rights had their roots in the case of a young Chinese man accused of murdering three diplomats in Washington DC in 1919. A frantic search for clues and dogged interrogations by gumshoes erupted in sensational news and editorial coverage and intensified international pressure on the police to crack the case. Part murder mystery, part courtroom drama, and part landmark legal case, The Third Degree is the true story of a young man’s abuse by the Washington police and an arduous, seven-year journey through the legal system that drew in Warren G. Harding, William Howard Taft, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John W. Davis, and J. Edgar Hoover. The ordeal culminated in a sweeping Supreme Court ruling penned by Justice Louis Brandeis that set the stage for the Miranda warning many years later. Scott D. Seligman argues that the importance of the case hinges not on the defendant’s guilt or innocence but on the imperative that a system that presumes one is innocent until proven guilty provides protections against coerced confessions. Today, when the treatment of suspects between arrest and trial remains controversial, when bias against immigrants and minorities in law enforcement continues to deny them their rights, and when protecting individuals from compulsory self-incrimination is still an uphill battle, this century-old legal spellbinder is a cautionary tale that reminds us how we got where we are today and makes us wonder how far we have yet to go.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1640120629

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The First Chinese American

The Remarkable Life of Wong Chin Foo

By: Scott D. Seligman

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The First Chinese American

The Remarkable Life of Wong Chin Foo

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Chinese in America endured abuse and discrimination in the late nineteenth century, but they had a leader and a fighter in Wong Chin Foo (1847–1898), whose story is a forgotten chapter in the struggle for equal rights in America. The first to use the term “Chinese American,” Wong defended his compatriots against malicious scapegoating and urged them to become Americanized to win their rights. A trailblazer and a born showman who proclaimed himself China’s first Confucian missionary to the United States, he founded America’s first association of Chinese voters and testified before Congress to get laws that denied them citizenship repealed. Wong challenged Americans to live up to the principles they freely espoused but failed to apply to the Chinese in their midst. This evocative biography is the first book-length account of the life and times of one of America’s most famous Chinese—and one of its earliest campaigners for racial equality.

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Hong Kong University Press

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9888139894

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The First Chinese American

The Remarkable Life of Wong Chin Foo

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The Remarkable Life of Wong Chin Foo

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Chinese at a Glance

Phrase Book & Dictionary for Travelers

By: Scott D. Seligman,I-Chuan Chen

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Chinese at a Glance

Phrase Book & Dictionary for Travelers

By: Scott D. Seligman,I-Chuan Chen

Two books in one! Phrase book: over 1,200 expressions for every travel situation. Dictionary: bilingual guide to over 2,000 key words. Includes: emergency phrases, pronunciation throughout, color maps, travel tips, food and sightseeing guides.

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0812028511

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Tong Wars

The Untold Story of Vice, Money, and Murder in New York's Chinatown

By: Scott D. Seligman

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Tong Wars

The Untold Story of Vice, Money, and Murder in New York's Chinatown

By: Scott D. Seligman

Tong Wars is historical true-crime set against the perfect landscape: Chinatown, New York City. Chinese rival tongs (secret societies) each lauded over illegal markets such as gambling and prostitution, and nothing could shut them down. Not threats or negotiations, not prison, not even executions. Pretty soon Chinese were slaughtering one another in the streets, inaugurating a succession of wars that raged for the next 30 years. This is the true account of these wars, turf wars fuelled by gangsters and drug lords, prostitutes, judges and cops.

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Penguin

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0399562273

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The Third Degree

The Triple Murder That Shook Washington and Changed American Criminal Justice

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The Third Degree

The Triple Murder That Shook Washington and Changed American Criminal Justice

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Men in a tub -- An unwelcome guest -- Murder at the mission -- Incommunicado -- Interrogation -- Confession -- Indictment and trial -- Appeal -- The third degree -- The Supreme court -- Retrial -- Freedom -- The Wickersham report -- The road to Miranda

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The Great Kosher Meat War Of 1902

Immigrant Housewives and the Riots That Shook New York City

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Immigrant Housewives and the Riots That Shook New York City

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Murder in Manchuria

The True Story of a Jewish Virtuoso, Russian Fascists, a French Diplomat, and a Japanese Spy in Occupied China

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The True Story of a Jewish Virtuoso, Russian Fascists, a French Diplomat, and a Japanese Spy in Occupied China

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Scott D. Seligman explores an unsolved murder set amid the chaos that reigned in China in the run-up to World War II.

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A Second Reckoning

Race, Injustice, and the Last Hanging in Annapolis

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A Second Reckoning

Race, Injustice, and the Last Hanging in Annapolis

By: Scott D. Seligman

A Second Reckoning tells the story of John Snowden, a Black man accused of the murder of a pregnant white woman in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1917. He refused to confess despite undergoing torture, was tried—through legal shenanigans—by an all-white jury, and was found guilty on circumstantial evidence and sentenced to death. Despite hair-raising, last-minute appeals to spare his life, Snowden was hanged for the crime. But decades after his death, thanks to tireless efforts by interested citizens and family members who believed him a victim of a “legal lynching,” Snowden was pardoned posthumously by the governor of Maryland in 2001. A Second Reckoning uses Snowden’s case to bring posthumous pardons into the national conversation about amends for past racial injustices. Scott D. Seligman argues that the repeal of racist laws and policies must be augmented by reckoning with America’s judicial past, especially in cases in which prejudice may have tainted procedures or perverted verdicts, evidence of bias survives, and a constituency exists for a second look. Seligman illustrates the profound effects such acts of clemency have on the living and ends with a siren call for a reexamination of such cases on the national level by the Department of Justice, which officially refuses to consider them.

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A Second Reckoning

A Second Reckoning

Murder in Manchuria

Murder in Manchuria

Chinese Business Etiquette

Chinese Business Etiquette

The Great Kosher Meat War Of 1902

The Great Kosher Meat War Of 1902

The Third Degree

The Third Degree

The First Chinese American

The First Chinese American

The First Chinese American

The First Chinese American

Chinese at a Glance

Chinese at a Glance

Tong Wars

Tong Wars

The Third Degree

The Third Degree

The Great Kosher Meat War Of 1902

The Great Kosher Meat War Of 1902

Murder in Manchuria

Murder in Manchuria

A Second Reckoning

A Second Reckoning

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