Kay Graham, the first female newspaper publisher, and her editor Ben Bradlee find themselves in a battle between press and government after uncovering a cover-up that spans four U.S. Presidents.
In 'Of All the Things', a man named Umboy is a fixer who pretends to be a lawyer to impress the girl he loves, who happens to be a senator's daughter. He gets caught up in a government project scandal and must navigate through the bureaucracy and red tape to save his reputation and win the girl's heart.
Clarence Earl Gideon was charged with breaking into a pool hall. He could not afford a lawyer to defend him in court, and after a hasty trial, he was convicted. Had Gideon accepted his fate, he'd have been imprisoned for five years. But Gideon did challenge his conviction -all the way to the Supreme Court. The result was the landmark case Gideon v. Wainwright, which guarantees poor defendants the right to counsel in criminal cases.
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