America on Trial: Inside the Legal Battles That Transformed Our Nation

1228 Pages·2004·3.19 MB·English

by  Alan M. Dershowitz

PRAISE FOR
AMERICA ON TRIAL
“Be entertained and enlightened by one of America’s foremost thinkers…Alan
Dershowitz is a national asset.”
—Richard North Patterson
“In a book that covers every significant legal skirmish over many centuries, he is
able to present compelling, controversial, but always interesting perspectives on
our embattled legal system. Dershowitz goes behind the transcripts in the
traditional arguments and is able to discover nuanced, critical, and important
information that will allow judges, lawyers, members of legislature, and, more
important, everyday citizens to appreciate the law’s complexity, ambiguity, and,
ultimately, celebrations. This is a book that has to be read if we are to understand
the progress we’ve made in our legal system, and prepare for the many struggles
that lie ahead as a nation in promoting the rule of law over the power of
individuals.”
—Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., Jesse Climenko Professor of Law and author of All
Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half Century of Brown v. Board of
Education “Out of Alan Dershowitz’s intellectual cornucopia comes a cascade of
bright ideas and intriguing revelations heretofore hidden or neglected in the
formal language of court decisions.”
—Mario Cuomo
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