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The Big Trial

Hardcover • 2015 • 1. edition

The Big Trial

By Lawrence M. Friedman

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About the book

The trial of O. J. Simpson was a sensation, avidly followed by millions of people, but it was also, in a sense, nothing new. One hundred years earlier the Lizzie Borden trial had held the nation in thrall. The names (and the crimes) may change, but the appeal is enduring-and why this is, how it works, and what it means are what Lawrence Friedman investigates in The Big Trial.What is it about these cases that captures the public imagination? Are the "headline trials" of our period different from ...Show more

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9780700620777

Publisher

University Press of Kansas

Published year

2015

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1

Original title

The Big Trial

Format

Hardcover

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