America on Trial by Dershowitz, Alan M. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Praise For America On Trial Also By Alan M. Dershowitz Copyright Dedication Acknowledgments Introduction Prologue: The Foundations of American Law Part I: Colonial America

The Salem Witchcraft Trials The Trial of John Peter Zenger The Slave Revolt Trial The Boston Massacre Trials

Part II: The Early History of the United States

The Trials of Aliens and Seditioners The Trial of Aaron Burr

Part III: From Jacksonian Democracy to the Pre–Civil War Period

The Boorn-Colvin Murder Mystery The Richard Lawrence Case The Harvard Medical School Murder

Part IV: The Prelude to the Civil War

The Dred Scott Case The John Brown Case

Part V: The Civil War

The Savannah Case The Trial of Captain Henry Wirz The Trial of the Lincoln Assassins

Part VI: The Post–Civil War Period

The Trial of Andrew Johnson The Trial of Susan B. Anthony The Trial of Mary Todd Lincoln The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau The Trial of Lizzie Borden

Part VII: The Early Twentieth Century

The Trial of Stanford White’s Killer The Haywood, McNamara, and Darrow Trials (The Great Labor Union Trials) The Trial of Leo Frank The Abrams Case The Shoeless Joe Jackson Case

Part VIII: The Roaring Twenties and the Depression Thirties

The Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti The Trial of Leopold and Loeb The Scopes Trial The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell The Lindbergh Kidnapping Trial The Scottsboro Trials

Part IX: World War II

The Nuremberg Trial The Ezra Pound Case

Part X: The Cold War and McCarthyism

The Alger Hiss Case The Trial of the Rosenbergs The Remington Case

Part XI: The Civil Rights Movement

The Brown Case The Prosecution of Martin Luther King Jr. The Case of Clarence Earl Gideon The Trial of Jack Ruby

Part XII: The Vietnam War Era and Its Aftermath

The Trial of Dr. Spock The Trial of the Chicago Seven The Court-Martial of Lieutenant William L. Calley Jr. The Pentagon Papers Case Roe v. Wade The American Indian Movement Trials The Bakke Case The Trial of Richard Herrin The Trial of Jeffrey MacDonald

Part XIII: The 1980s and 1990s

The Trial of Jean Harris for the Scarsdale Diet Doctor Murder The Attempted Assassination of President Reagan by John Hinckley Jr. The Trials and Appeal of Claus von Bülow The John DeLorean Trial Flynt v. Falwell The Bernhard Goetz Case The McMartin Case The Central Park Jogger Case The Trial of Mike Tyson The Two Trials for the Beating of Rodney King The O. J. Simpson Trial The Clinton Impeachment Trial

Part XIV: The New Millennium and the Future

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