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Thinking under fire : great courtroom lawyers and their impact on American history

Title: Thinking under fire : great courtroom lawyers and their impact on American history / Daniel J. Kornstein.
Author: Kornstein, Daniel.
Publication: New York, N.Y. : Dodd, Mead, ©1987.

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Description

viii, 243 pages : portraits; 24 cm

Subject

Genre/Form

Biographies
History
Forensic orations.

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-232) and index.

Contents

Introduction: Courtroom advocates and American history -- Part I. The revolutionary setting: 1607-1776. 1. Andrew Hamilton -- 2. James Otis -- 3. John Adams -- Part II. A new nation: 1776-1865. 4. Daniel Webster -- Part III. Growing pains: 1865-1916. 5. Clarence Darrow -- 6. Earl Rogers -- 7. Louis Brandeis -- Part IV. Continuing tensions: 1917-1986. 8. Robert H. Jackson -- 9. John W. Davis -- 10. Thurgood Marshall -- Prt V. The summing up. 11. What makes a great courtroom advocate?

ISBN

0396088147
9780396088141

LCCN

86029128

OCLC

ocm14818252
14818252
SCSB-9015156

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library