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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Great Trials Of The Twenties: The Watershed Decade In America's Courtroomsdi Robert Grant
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I don't think the authors quite made up their mind whether they were going to do a book about the 1920s in general, or a book about famous 1920s trials. One trial, for example (that of Al Capone) didn't take place in the 1920s, and the events of another (the Black Sox scandal) largely didn't take place in the 1920s. The same could be said of the Insull trials. In each case, much more is spent on the background of the trials, than on the trials themselves. Only in the case of the Leopold & Loeb murder/kidnapping trial do the authors really come to grips with legal aspects. Not recommended. ( ) I could not finish this! It's very bogged down with alot of information about the 1920's and only a little about the trials themselves. I did find the Fatty Arbuckle chapter interesting though. I for some reason only ever heard bits and pieces about the crime and it wasn't as bad as I thought it to be. Poor guy! nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
1920s America was at peace at home and abroad but issues facing the nation were highlighted by a series of trials including baseball's Black Sox, Al Capone, John T. Scopes, Sacco and Vanzetti, Leopold and Loeb, and the court martial of Billy Mitchell. Americans will find this book on trials of the "Roaring Twenties" provocative. Great Trials begins with an extensive introduction describing "the setting" of that tumultuous decade, and follows with an in-depth examination of 10 trials, touching on nearly every facet of American life. Each case is a fascinating story, and the fierce jousts in these courtrooms impart to the reader both how different things once were, and how much the nature of argumentative individuals has remained exactly the same. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)345.73Social sciences Law Criminal Law North America United StatesClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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