by Aseem Gupta | Aug 30, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
John Grisham’s The Chamber, first published in 1994 and now available in several editions through Penguin Random House, begins with the ingredients of a conventional legal thriller: an old murder case, a condemned prisoner, an approaching execution, and a young...
by Aseem Gupta | Aug 20, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
John Grisham’s 1993 legal thriller The Client begins with a child stumbling into information that powerful adults would kill, imprison, threaten, manipulate, and bargain to obtain. Eleven-year-old Mark Sway does not have to solve Senator Boyd Boyette’s murder. Within...
by Aseem Gupta | Aug 11, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
John Grisham’s The Pelican Brief begins with a puzzle that looks almost designed to defeat ordinary political reasoning. Two United States Supreme Court justices are murdered within hours of each other, yet Abraham Rosenberg and Glenn Jensen seem like an...
by Aseem Gupta | Aug 5, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton is both an immense biography of one man and a history of the institutional creation of the early United States. Published in 2004, the book helped restore Hamilton from the comparatively secondary position he had occupied in popular...
