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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814096103321

Autore

Underwood James L

Titolo

Deadly censorship : murder, honor, and freedom of the press / / James Lowell Underwood

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia, South Carolina : , : University of South Carolina Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

1-61117-300-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (324 p.)

Disciplina

345.757/02523

Soggetti

Trials (Murder) - South Carolina - History - 20th century

South Carolina Politics and government 1865-1950

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

An editor is censored -- Pretrial maneuvers -- The first round of the trial -- The prosecution case -- The defense case -- Tillman's testimony -- The closing arguments -- The verdict -- Notes.

Sommario/riassunto

A specialist on constitutional law, Underwood has written the definitive examination of the court proceedings, the state's complicated homicide laws, and the violent cult of personal honor that had undergirded South Carolina society since the colonial era.