The trial in American life
By: Robert A. Ferguson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780226243252
Subjects: Trials; History; Gericht; Geschichte; Prozess
Description: Traces both the legal implications and the cultural ripples of prominent American legal battles. This title brings together newspaper accounts, and the work of such writers as Emerson and Thoreau to show what happens when courtrooms are forced to cope with communal anxieties and make legal decisions that change how America thinks about itself.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-392) and index.
Table of contents: title: Where courtrooms and communities meet --; title: Inside the courtroom --; title: The punishing of Aaron Burr --; title: John Brown : defendant on the loose --; title: Mary Surratt on the altar of national identity --; title: Traitors in name only : the Haymarket defendants --; title: Killing the Rosenbergs --; title: The trial in television America --; title: Seeing justice done.