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The Highest Law in the Land: How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy: How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy Horses Publishers LunchShortlisted for Columbia Journalism School's J. Anthony Lukas Award A Publishers Lunch NonFiction Buzz Book Named Most Anticipated by Los Angeles Times A leading authority on sheriffs investigates the impunity with which they police their communities, alongside the troubling role they play in American life, law enforcement, and, increasingly, national politics. The figure of the American sheriff has loomed large in popular imagination, though given