The Great Writ: A Nation's Struggle with Liberty and Power is a gripping historical and legal narrative that argues the story of habeas corpus is the story of America's enduring conflict between national security and individual liberty.

Kerry Khan takes the reader on a journey through America's most challenging eras, revealing how this essential right is tested and reshaped in times of crisis—from the constitutional battles of the Civil War to the injustices of Japanese American internment and the complex legal landscape of the Global War on Terror.