Jim Crow's Last Stand(Updated) Nonunanimous Criminal Jury Verdicts in Louisiana by ThomasAiello Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 2019 by Lsu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-7237-7, ISBN: 0-8071-7237-5
"A remnant of the racist post-Reconstruction Redeemer sociopolitical agenda, Louisiana’s nonunanimous jury-verdict law permitted juries to convict criminal defendants with only nine, and later ten, out of twelve votes: a legal oddity. On the surface, it was meant to speed convictions. In practice, the law funneled many convicts―especially African Americans―into Louisiana’s burgeoning convict lease system. Although it faced multiple legal ..."
Paul Morphy(Updated) Pride and Sorrow of Chess by David Lawson, ThomasAiello Paperback, 430 Pages, Published 2010 by Univ Of Louisiana At Lafayette ISBN-13: 978-1-887366-97-7, ISBN: 1-887366-97-0
""Paul Morphy: The Pride and Sorrow of Chess" is the only full-length biography of Paul Morphy, the antebellum chess prodigy who launched United States participation in international chess and is still generally acknowledged as the greatest American chess player of all time. But Morphy was more than a player. He was a shy, retiring lawyer who had been taught that such games were no way to make a living. The strain of his fame and the pul ..."