America on Trial: Inside the Legal Battles That Transformed Our Nation
- ISBN-10
- 0759511039
- ISBN-13
- 9780759511033
- Series
- America on Trial
- Category
- Law
- Pages
- 608
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004-05-14
- Publisher
- Grand Central Publishing
- Author
- Alan M. Dershowitz
Description
The Boston Massacre. The Dred Scott decision. The Chicago Seven. O.J. Simpson. These are some of the trials that have both shaped and fascinated American society. Alan M. Dershowitz, who has been either a lawyer, consultant, or commentator on some of the most celebrated cases of the 1970s, 80s and 90s, highlights the trials he believes to be the most significant in our history, and discuses how they were central to the development of America's political and social structure.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2004
- 586 pages
- Paperback
- Grand Central Pub
Similar books
-
Rap on Trial: Race, Lyrics, and Guilt in America
By Erik NielsonNow, an alarming number of aspiring rappers are imprisoned. No other form of creative expression is treated this way in the courts. Rap on Trial places this disturbing practice in the context of hip hop history and exposes what's at stake.
-
The Sacco-Vanzetti Affair: America on Trial
By Moshik TemkinThis book is the first to reveal the full national and international scope of the Sacco-Vanzetti affair, uncovering how and why the two men became the center of a global cause câeláebre that shook public opinion and transformed America's ...
-
Books on Trial: Red Scare in the Heartland
By Wayne A. Wiegand, Shirley A. WiegandHow civil liberties triumphed over national insecurity
-
Lust on Trial: Censorship and the Rise of American Obscenity in the Age of Anthony Comstock
By Amy WerbelFor a substantive examination of these social and political conditions, see Paul Boyer, Urban Masses and Moral Order in America (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978), 121. Greenhill, Playing It Straight, 103–107.
-
Democracy on Trial
By Jean Bethke ElshtainIn her 1993 CBC Massey Lectures, political philosopher Jean Bethke Elshtain delves into these complex issues to evaluate democracy's chances for survival.
-
God on Trial: Dispatches from America's Religious Battlefields
By Peter H. IronsCooper had been initially supportive of his efforts . “ He'd call me to see if we were going forward , ” he told a reporter . But news accounts of the ACLU's litigation threats prompted Cooper himself to back off .
-
Terror to the Wicked: America's First Trial by Jury That Ended a War and Helped to Form a Nation
By Tobey PearlThe tree may : Natalie Zaman , “ The Rabbit Tree , ” Magical Destinations of the Northeast : Sacred Sites , Occult Oddities & Magical Monuments ( Llewellyn Worldwide , 2016 ) . The crime had : Glenn LaFantasie , ed .
-
Dirty Works: Obscenity on Trial in America’s First Sexual Revolution
By Brett Gary... H. L., 173, 392n46 Meninger, Karl, 172 Meyers, Joseph, 193 Miller, Arthur, 356n43 Miller, Henry, Tropic of Cancer, 291, 400n87 Miller, Neil, 326n38 Milton, John, Paradise Lost, 212 Mindell, Fania, 227, 228 Mizpah pessary, 217, 226, ...
-
Mass Incarceration on Trial: A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America
By Jonathan SimonThis book offers a provocative and brilliant reading to the end of mass incarceration.
-
What Blood Won't Tell: A History of Race on Trail in America
By Ariela J. GrossThis book reminds us that the imaginary connection between racial identity and fitness for citizenship remains potent today and continues to impede racial justice and equality.