{"product_id":"kafka-comes-to-america","title":"Kafka Comes to America - Fighting for Justice in the War on Terror - A Public Defender's Inside Account","description":"\u003cb\u003eAmerican Bar Association Silver Gavel Award — Winner in the Book category\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIndependent  Publishers — Winner of the Gold Medal in the Autobiography\/Memoir category       \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eForeWord Book of the Year Awards — Winner of the Bronze Medal in the Social Science  category \u003cbr\u003e The Eric Hoffer Award - Winner in the Memoir category\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA public defender’ s dedicated struggle to rescue two innocent men from the recent Kafkaesque practices  of our vandalized justice system\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Our government can make you disappear.” Those  were the words Steven Wax never imagined he would hear himself say. In his twenty-nine  years as a public defender, Wax had never had to warn a client that he or she might  be taken away to a military brig, or worse, a “black site,” one of our country’s  dreaded secret prisons. How had our country come to this? The disappearance of people  happens in places ruled by tyrants, military juntas, fascist strongmen—governments  with such contempt for the rule of law that they strip their citizens of all rights.  But in America?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Under the current Bush administration, not only are the civil rights  of foreigners in jeopardy, but those of U.S. citizens. Wax interweaves the stories  of two men that he and his team represented: Brandon Mayfield, an American-born small  town lawyer and family man, arrested as a suspected terrorist in the Madrid train  station bombings after a fingerprint was incorrectly traced back to him by the FBI;  and Adel Hamad, a Sudanese hospital administrator taken from his apartment to a Pakistani  prison and then flown in chains to the United States military prison in Guantanamo  Bay, Cuba. Kafka Comes to America reveals where and how our civil liberties have  been eroded for a false security, and how each of us can make a difference. If these  events could happen to Brandon Mayfield and Adel Hamad, they can happen to anyone.  It could happen to us. It could happen to you.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51167928549664,"sku":"9781590512951","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9781590512951.jpg?v=1769748623","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/products\/kafka-comes-to-america","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}