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Law makers, law breakers, and uncommon trials

From the divine right of Charles I to the civil rights struggle of Rosa Parks, this book includes 25 non-fiction stories that provide a panorama of people whose actions helped form our legal system and our world.
Print Book, English, 2007
American Bar Association, Chicago, IL, 2007
xix, 422 pages ; 23 cm
9781590318805, 1590318803
162126780
The king who lost his head : the trial of Charles I
James Wilson : an unknown American founder
The 1798 Sedition Act : president's party prosecutes press
Signed, sealed, but not delivered : Marbury v. Madison
Justice Benjamin Curtis and Dred Scott
The long, strange case of Dr. Samuel Mudd : the Lincoln assassination
The unusual Judah P. Benjamin
The life and death of George Wythe : "I am murdered"
The trial of Levi Weeks : Hamilton and Burr for the defense
Wild Bill Hickok : the two trials of Jack McCall
Justice Stephen Field, Justice David Terry, and Sarah Althea Hill
Mountain Meadows massacre
A punctuation mark : Rex v. Casement
The spelling game : Russell's cross-examination of Pigott
Hans Frank : Hitler's lawyer
The Ardeatine caves
Massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane
Exodus : the trial
Zigzag : the sinking of the USS Indianapolis
Schumann v. Wieck : the battle for Clara
Whistler v. Ruskin : a question of art
Sir Edward Carson cross-examines Oscar Wilde
United States of America against one book entitled Ulysses by James Joyce
Pride and prejudice : the dark side of Henry Ford
Rosa Parks : an American icon