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The Trial: A History, from Socrates to O.J. Simpson [Secure Mobipocket]
by Sadakat Kadri
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 For as long as accuser and accused have faced each other in public, criminal trials have been establishing far more than who did what to whom--and in this fascinating book, Sadakat Kadri surveys four thousand years of courtroom drama. A brilliantly engaging writer, Kadri journeys from the silence of ancient Egypt's Hall of the Dead to the clamor of twenty-first-century Hollywood to show how emotion and fear have inspired Western notions of justice--and the extent to which they still riddle its t... more info>>
Category: General Nonfiction
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