From the best-selling author of The Working Poor,a powerfully enlightening new book: an exhaustively researched examination of everyday violations of law, justice, individual rights, and civil liberties before and since 9/11. Rights at Riskshows us the "other America," a shadow world where the civil liberties we rightly take for granted have been compromised, and summons us to reclaim them. David Shipler shows us victims of torture and coercion--from suspected terrorists to a teenager in Oakland--whose confessions (sometimes false) under extreme duress are used against them in court. We see a poverty-stricken woman, forced to share an attorney with her drug dealer boyfriend and sentenced to life in prison when the conflict of interest turns her lawyer against her. And we see an Iraqi refugee, arrested and sent to court for immigration violations only to have his case dismissed when research reveals that the charge against him was utterly inapplicable. Often shocking, yet ultimately hopeful, Rights at Riskis an essential assessment of America's legal system from one of our most thoughtful writers.