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Robert A. Ferguson

The Trial in American Life

414 pages, 21 halftones  6 x 9  © 2007

Cloth $29.00

ISBN: 9780226243252   Published March 2007

Paper $20.00

ISBN: 9780226243269   Published September 2008

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Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi

PART-ONE: THE HIGH PROFILE TRIAL
1 Where Courtrooms and Communities Meet
2 Inside the Courtroom

PART-TWO: A CASE STUDY SEQUENCE
3 The Punishing of Aaron Burr
4 John Brown: Defendant on the Loose
5 Mary Surratt on the Altar of National Identity
6 Traitors in Name Only: The Haymarket Defendants
7 Killing the Rosenbergs

PART-THREE: IN COURT TODAY
8 The Trial in Television America
9 Seeing Justice Done

Notes
Index
Subjects



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