America on trial
Subtitle: inside the legal battles that transformed our nation
By: Alan M. Dershowitz
Publisher: Warner Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 586
Subjects: Trials -- United States; Law -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Colonial America; title: The early history of the United States; 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: The early twentieth century; title: The roaring twenties and the Depression thiries; title: World War II; title: The Cold War and McCarthyism; title: The civil rights movement; title: The Vietnam War era and its aftermath; title: The 1980s and 1990s; title: The new millennium and the future