America on trial
Subtitle: inside the legal battles that transformed our nation
By: Alan M. Dershowitz.
Publisher: Warner Books, Inc.
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 586
Subjects: Trials -- United States; Law -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Colonial America; title: Early history of the US; title: From Jacksonian democracy to the pre-Civil War period; title: The prelude to the Civil War; title: The Civil War; title: The post civil war period; title: Early 20th century; title: The "roaring 20's" and the depression 30's; title: World War II; title: The Cold War and McCarthyism; title: The civil rights movement; title: The Vietnam War era and its aftermath; title: 1980's and 1990's; title: The new millennium and the future.