America on trial : inside the legal battles that transformed our nation /

A selection of trials, criminal and civil, from throughout American history, including treason and impeachment trials, and courts-martial

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Main Author: Dershowitz, Alan M
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Warner Books, 2004
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300 |a xix, 586 pages ;  |c 24 cm 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 0 |a The foundations of American law -- pt. I. Colonial America : The Salem witchcraft trials ; The trial of John Peter Zenger ; The slave revolt trial ; The Boston Massacre trials -- pt. II. The early history of the United States : The trials of aliens and seditioners ; The trial of Aaron Burr -- pt. III. From Jacksonian democracy to the pre-Civil War period : The Boorn-Colvin murder mystery ; The Richard Lawrence case ; The Harvard Medical School murder -- pt. IV. The prelude to the Civil War : The Dred Scott case ; The John Brown case -- pt. V. The Civil War : The Savannah case ; The trial of Captain Henry Wirz ; The trial of the Lincoln assassins -- pt. VI. The post-Civil War period : The trial of Andrew Johnson ; The trial of Susan B. Anthony ; The trial of Mary Todd Lincoln ; The trial of the assassin Guiteau ; The trial of Lizzie Bordon -- pt. VII. The early twentieth century : The trial of Stanford White's killer ; The great labor union trials ; The trial of Leo Frank ; The Abrams case ; The shoeless Joe Jackson case -- pt. VIII. The roaring twenties and the Depression thiries : The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti ; The trial of Leopold and Loeb ; The Scopes trial ; The court-martial of Billy Mitchell ; The Lindbergh kidnapping trial ; The Scottsboro trials -- pt. IX. World War II : The Nuremberg trial ; The Ezra Pound case -- pt. X. The Cold War and McCarthyism : The Alger Hiss case ; The trial of the Rosenbergs ; The Remington case -- pt. XI. The civil rights movement : The Brown case ; The prosecution of Martin Luther King Jr. ; The case of Clarence Earl Gideon ; The trial of Jack Ruby -- pt. XII. The Vietnam War era and its aftermath : The trial of Dr. Spock ; The trial of the Chicago Seven ; The court-martial of Lieutenant William L. Calley Jr. ; The Pentagon Papers case ; Roe v. Wade ; The American Indian movement trials ; The Bakke case ; The trial of Richard Herrin ; The trial of Jeffrey MacDonald -- pt. XIII. The 1980s and 1990s : The trial of Jean Harris for the Scarsdale diet doctor murder ; The attempted assassination of President Reagan by John Hinckley Jr. ; The trials and appeal of Claus von Bülow ; The John DeLorean trial ; Flynt v. Falwell ; The Bernhard Goetz case ; The McMartin case ; The Central Park jogger case ; The trial of Mike Tyson ; The two trials for the beating of Rodney King ; The O.J. Simpson trial ; The Clinton impeachment trial -- pt. XIV. The new millennium and the future : Bush v. Gore ; The Texas sodomy trial and appeal ; The cases of the terrorist detainees in Guantanamo, on the U.S. Mainland, and in unknown places around the world 
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