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UNINA9910824465503321 |
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Autore |
Ferguson Robert A. <1942-> |
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Titolo |
The trial in American life / / Robert A. Ferguson |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2007 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-42641-9 |
9786612426414 |
0-226-24328-1 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (415 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Trials - United States |
Trials - United States - History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-392) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One. The High-Profile Trial -- Part Two. A Case-Study Sequence -- Part Three. In Court Today -- Notes -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In a bravura performance that ranges from Aaron Burr to O. J. Simpson, Robert A. Ferguson traces the legal meaning and cultural implications of prominent American trials across the history of the nation. His interdisciplinary investigation carries him from courtroom transcripts to newspaper accounts, and on to the work of such imaginative writers as Emerson, Thoreau, William Dean Howells, and E. L. Doctorow. Ferguson shows how courtrooms are forced to cope with unresolved communal anxieties and how they sometimes make legal decisions that change the way Americans think about the |
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