Lisa Bloom is an award–winning journalist, legal analyst, trial attorney, and is currently the legal analyst for the Today Show and NBC News. A daily fixture on American television for the last decade, Lisa regularly appears on CNN, HLN, and MSNBC. Bloom is also the author of the bestselling Swagger and Think. She has been featured on Oprah, Nightline, Today, Good Morning America, and many other shows. She has written numerous articles for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post, the National Law Journal, CNN.com, the Daily Beast, and many more. She has also been profiled, featured, and quoted in hundreds of publications, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Elle, Ladies' Home Journal, California Lawyer, Vegetarian Times, and Variety. She currently lives in Los Angeles where she runs her law firm, The Bloom Firm.
Praise for Suspicion Nation:
"A smart, fresh, powerful telling of the trial that riveted our
country. Suspicion Nation is a stunning eye–opener about the
Zimmerman case –– a 'must–read' for every intelligent American."
—Linda Fairstein, New York Times bestselling author
"With the mind of a lawyer and the eye of a journalist, Bloom
achieves a remarkable double success: meticulously examining the
evidence in this case while also placing the whole Zimmerman saga
in a broad historical and cultural context." —Jeffrey Toobin, New
York Times bestselling author of The Nine and The Oath
"Lisa Bloom brings her expert legal eye to the lethal cocktail of
racial inequality, ludicrously outdated gun laws, and a culture of
violence that led to the senseless killing of an unarmed
seventeen–year–old boy. Read this book, get angry, and demand
change." —Piers Morgan, host of CNN's Piers Morgan Live.
"Riveting and brilliantly done. Suspicion Nation reads like a great
courtroom drama and will ignite major re–examination of this iconic
case." —Joy–Ann Reid, MSNBC Anchor
"Suspicion Nation gets to the heart of all matters, both legal and
racial. Lisa Bloom has given us a riveting analysis of one of the
most profoundly disturbing cases of our time. Don't miss this
book." —Marcia Clark, New York Times bestselling author and lead
prosecutor, California v. OJ Simpson
"This book is a crusading call for change – and a penetrating
inventory of our racially divided country. It is a tribute to
Bloom's candor that Suspicion Nation will make readers squirm. Her
message has the potential to inspire a national dialogue, if we
have the courage to read it." —Jami Floyd, Legal Contributor, Al
Jazeera America
"We know that somewhere the Trayvon Martin case went awry, but in
Suspicion Nation Lisa Bloom shows us how wrong and reveals a lot we
don't know about the case. Like a great civil rights lawyer Lisa
has fought the good fight and exposed injustice." —Toure, author of
Who's Afraid of Post–Blackness
"Bloom pulls no punches in scrutinizing every misstep and missed
opportunity of the state prosecution. She also paints a global
picture of the controversy surrounding the not–guilty verdict for
Zimmerman, in that it was a clear–cut case of blatant racial
profiling to just about everybody around the world except the
majority of those on jury duty in that Florida courtroom. . . A
much–needed factual antidote to the mainstream media coverage of
Trayvon Martin's tragic story and the travesty of the George
Zimmerman trial." —Kirkus Reviews
"The first half of Bloom's book, in which she dissects the trial
itself, is riveting and quick–paced in the manner of all courtroom
dramas. She proposes alternative ways of handling key witnesses and
invents a far, far better closing argument than the one prosecutors
used. By the time Bloom has taken us through her second theme — the
violence and destruction that occur when fear and prejudice meet
guns and overly broad self–defense laws — it's hard not to despair
as it seems certain there will be more Trayvon Martins in a
'culture where guns blaze and our children fall.'" —Boston
Globe
"Suspicion Nation is a thorough evisceration of the amateurish job
done by the Florida prosecutors who tried Zimmerman... her analysis
of the Zimmerman prosecution's many missteps is a compelling one."
—The Los Angeles Times
"Bloom creates a fast–paced courtroom drama that's surprisingly
gripping considering how well–known the outcome is, while she
relentlessly deconstructs the prosecutors' case against Zimmerman.
She ultimately presents a devastating portrait of incompetence.
Agree or disagree with Bloom's conclusion, readers nevertheless get
an education in the fascinating world of criminal justice. .
.Suspicion Nation ends with a stark picture of Americans' attitudes
about race and makes an impassioned argument for a more open and
honest national discussion about racial prejudice." —Orange County
Register
"Suspicion Nation is an alarming, somewhat uncomfortable and
brutally realistic look at race, stereotypes and violence in the
United States." —Shelf Awareness
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