By Herbert Stern, Skyhorse Publishing 2012, $29.95.
Herb Stern has had an amazing career arc. From the lower east side of Manhattan to Chicago Law School, assistant district attorney under the legendary Frank Hogan (where he was part of the investigation of the murder of Malcom X), trial attorney for the Department of Justice's Organized Crime and Racketeering Section, chief assistant U.S. Attorney and then U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey (where he cleaned up pervasive mob-influenced public corruption), U.S. District Judge for New Jersey (from which he was specially appointed to try a hijacking case in the U.S. sector of Berlin, Germany), cofounder of a famous trial advocacy program at the University of Virginia School of Law, and in-demand trial attorney.
