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200 14$aThe trial in American life /$fRobert A. Ferguson
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$dc2007
215   $a1 online resource (415 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [337]-392) and index.
327   $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $tPart One. The High-Profile Trial -- $tPart Two. A Case-Study Sequence -- $tPart Three. In Court Today -- $tNotes -- $tIndex
330   $aIn 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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