Title: After the Madness
First published: 1997
Description: Driving down the Long Island Expressway in November of 1992, Sol Wachtler  was New York's Chief Judge and heir apparent to the New York Governorship.    Suddenly, three van loads of FBI agents swerved in front of him -- bringing his car and his legal career to a halt.  Wachtlers subsequent arrest, conviction and incarceration for harassing his longtime lover precipitated a media feeding frenzy, revealing to the world his struggles with romantic obsession, manic-depression and drug abuse. With unflinching honesty, Wachtler draws upon his unique experience of living life on both sides of the bench to paint a chilling portrait of prison life interwoven with a no-holds-barred analysis of the shortcomings of the American legal justice system.
Subjects: Diaries, Prisoners, Judges, Prisons, Nonfiction, New York Times reviewed, Prisons, united states, Prisoners, united states, Prisoners, biography, Judges, biography
Places: New York (State)
People: Sol Wachtler
LC classification: HV9475.N7 W33 1997