Defense attorney and Harvard law professor provides an insider's account of the trial, appeal, subsequent retrial, and acquittal in the murder case of Claus von Bulow, profiling the people involved. NOTE: This edition does not include photographs.
Reversal of Fortune: Inside the Von Bulow Case
The true story of heiress Sunny von Bülow’s coma and the attempted-murder trial of her husband, Claus—the case that inspired the film Reversal of Fortune.
This edition of the biennial Poverty and Shared Prosperity report brings sobering news.
Once deemed a “dysfunctional” democracy with a “feckless” set of political institutions and a “drunk” economy, today’s Brazil has undergone a complete reversal of fortune.
A compelling tour de force, this book reshapes and rethinks global history. The volume will be a fascinating read for scholars of history and economics, especially economic history and human geography.
Explores the relationship between unexpected events in narrative and life
In simple terms, this book will show you how to get your "groove" back at any age, but especially if you're over 50, 60 or even 70.
Richard Baldwin shows how the combination of high tech with low wages propelled industrialization in developing nations, deindustrialization in developed nations, and a commodity supercycle that is petering out.
The prosecutors suspected, however, that neither of Lawson's defendants was the kingpin of the operation: they believed that a man named George Bradley, who had not been indicted, was the real boss. In order to gather information in ...
The well-known attorney discusses what it is like to be Jewish today, examining such issues as anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, assimilation, Zionism, civil rights, the role of Jews in the U.S.S.R., changes in Eastern Europe, and more.