Research Catalog

Title

Law makers, law breakers, and uncommon trials / Robert Aitken and Marilyn Aitken.

Author

Aitken, Robert.

Publication

Chicago, Ill. : Section of Litigation, American Bar Association, 2007.

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Additional Authors

• Aitken, Marilyn.
• American Bar Association. Section of Litigation.

Description

xix, 422 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Trials > United States
• Trials > Great Britain
• Trials > Ireland

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-395) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The king who lost his head : the trial of Charles I -- James Wilson : an unknown American founder -- The 1798 Sedition Act : president's party prosecutes press -- Signed, sealed, but not delivered : Marbury v. Madison -- Justice Benjamin Curtis and Dred Scott -- The long, strange case of Dr. Samuel Mudd : the Lincoln assassination -- The unusual Judah P. Benjamin -- The life and death of George Wythe : "I am murdered" -- The trial of Levi Weeks : Hamilton and Burr for the defense -- Wild Bill Hickok : the two trials of Jack McCall -- Justice Stephen Field, Justice David Terry, and Sarah Althea Hill -- Mountain Meadows massacre -- A punctuation mark : Rex v. Casement -- The spelling game : Russell's cross-examination of Pigott -- Hans Frank : Hitler's lawyer -- The Ardeatine caves -- Massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane -- Exodus : the trial -- Zigzag : the sinking of the USS Indianapolis -- Schumann v. Wieck : the battle for Clara -- Whistler v. Ruskin : a question of art -- Sir Edward Carson cross-examines Oscar Wilde -- United States of America against one book entitled Ulysses by James Joyce -- Pride and prejudice : the dark side of Henry Ford -- Rosa Parks : an American icon.

ISBN

• 9781590318805
• 1590318803

LCCN

^^2007029819

OCLC

162126780

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library