And the walls came tumbling down
Subtitle: closing arguments that changed the way we live, from protecting free speech to winning women's suffrage to defending the right to die
By: Michael S. Lief, H. Mitchell Caldwell.
Contributors: Caldwell, Harry M.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 404
Subjects: Civil rights -- United States -- Cases -- Popular works.; Civil_Rights
Genres: Popular works.
Description: "From the authors of the critically acclaimed Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury comes a collection of closing arguments that spans 250 years and eight landmark trials that have redefined civil rights in America and profoundly affected our society." "Until now, the closing arguments from these trials have been unavailable to the lay reader - except in the lasting effects of the decisions that they influenced. But here the authors have collected some of the most pivotal and exciting closing arguments in history - from the Amistad case, in which John Quincy Adams brought the injustice of slavery to the center stage of American politics, to the Susan B. Anthony decision, which paved the way to success for women's suffrage, to the Larry Flynt trial, in which the porn king became an unlikely champion for freedom of speech."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "A Lisa Drew book."

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: To be or not to be : Karen Ann Quinlan and the right to die; title: The Amistad odyssey : American courts decide if a free man can be forced into slavery; title: Enemy within : radio star John Henry Faulk challenges the McCarthy-era blacklist; title: A woman's rightful place : Susan B. Anthony casts a vote and battles for the ballot; title: The truth shall set you free : the English crown and colonial government try muzzling newspaper publisher John Peter Zenger and the fledgling American press; title: The porn king and the preacher : Larry Flynt takes on the moral majority and becomes an unlikely champion for free speech; title: What price too high? : One woman's fight for survival against cancer and her HMO; title: Cleansing the gene pool : Carrie Buck's forced sterilization and the limits on reproductive freedom.