America on Trial inside Battles that Transformed Our Nation
By: Alan M. Dershowitz
The book starts out by discussing how courtroom trial has fascinated human being from the beginning of recorded history. A trial can provide great insight into the passion, conflicts, and attitudes of a particular time period, despite sometimes because of its narrower focus. America on Trial book is an episodic history of our nation viewed through the prism of our most dramatic and influential public court proceedings. In some cases the verdicts of certain trials have outcomes that can change history in and of itself. Since the players of a court case all have different personalities, biases, predispositions, and ambitions. A Court case represents the human condition of a specific time period. Each of the cases Dershowitz examines represents important eras in the history of United States. The cases tell us something about the struggles and strong feelings of that time period. The court......
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Approximate Pages: 6 (260 words per double-spaced page) |