Law in American history (and in mine)
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Northport, New York : Twelve Tables Press, [2025] .
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xii, 501 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Law, over the course of American history, has never traveled in a straight line. This book charts that uneven trajectory, investigating great and infamous trials, chronicling historic individuals' entanglements within the legal system, demonstrating how the high and mighty have sometimes gotten away (literally) with murder, illustrating the significance of individual lawyers to our nation, and revealing how single trials and hearings have changes the course of American history. Author C. Evan Stewart analyzes law throughout the United States' history, including an iconic decision by one of America's greatest judges, the many errors that contributed to the debacle of the O.J. Simpson trial, and the 1969 Chappaquiddick tragedy. This book is also, in part, a personal memoir of the author's experiences as a young lawyer at one of the country's most prestigious law firms.
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9781946074454
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Law, over the course of American history, has never traveled in a straight line. This book charts that uneven trajectory, investigating great and infamous trials, chronicling historic individuals' entanglements within the legal system, demonstrating how the high and mighty have sometimes gotten away (literally) with murder, illustrating the significance of individual lawyers to our nation, and revealing how single trials and hearings have changes the course of American history. Author C. Evan Stewart analyzes law throughout the United States' history, including an iconic decision by one of America's greatest judges, the many errors that contributed to the debacle of the O.J. Simpson trial, and the 1969 Chappaquiddick tragedy. This book is also, in part, a personal memoir of the author's experiences as a young lawyer at one of the country's most prestigious law firms.
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Stewart, C. E. 1. (2025). Law in American history (and in mine). Twelve Tables Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Stewart, Charles E. 1952-. 2025. Law in American History (and in Mine). Twelve Tables Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Stewart, Charles E. 1952-, Law in American History (and in Mine). Twelve Tables Press, 2025.
MLA Citation (style guide)Stewart, Charles E. 1952-. Law in American History (and in Mine). Twelve Tables Press, 2025.
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| 505 | 0 | |a The law firm of "Wild Bill" Donovan -- Sam Murphy : the John Wayne of lawyerdom -- Walter Mansfield : lawyer, judge, warrior -- The associate's dilemma : Joe Fortenberry, Mahlon Perkins, and the Kodak antitrust trial -- The associate's dilemma : regulation U -- The associate's dilemma : obeying dumb orders -- How to handle your first pro bono matter? -- Ken Hart : extraordinary lawyer, legal mentor, and good friend -- The most publicized trial in history, and the case with perhaps the most legal errors -- Mrs. Palsgraf and the Long Island Railroad : did Cardozo get it wrong? -- The trial of Anthony Burns and the coming Civil War -- The Supreme Court gets it right (twice) : the trials of the "Scottsboro boys" -- New York at its Nadir? The trial of Bernhard Goetz -- The trials of "Scooter" Libby : justice run amok? -- Edward Bennett Williams's last great trial -- The trials of Alger Hiss -- Alger Hiss (redux) -- McCarthyism meets the law, and loses -- Litigating profiles in courage -- The twentieth century's most infamous crime : solved without a trial -- Bobby Kennedy's Department of Justice : RFK and his greatest nemesis -- Chappaquiddick : did the justice system work? -- Attorneys in the White House -- FDR's "trial" of Jimmy Walker -- Lincoln : a great lawyer (and our greatest president) -- William Henry Seward : a great lawyer (and great statesman) -- A friendship that helped win the Civil War -- George Patton and military law -- The serendipity of history : Henry Stimson and the saving of Kyoto -- The court-martial of Captain Charles McVay -- William Evarts : the man to see (in the nineteenth century) -- Elihu Root : legal icon, American statesman, and fierce "TR" partisan -- John McCloy : the "wise man" -- Tom Dewey's brilliant legal career -- The man who mentored lawyers -- Simon Rifkind and the lawyer's role and responsibility -- Simon Rifkind and the case of the maligned author -- Theresienstadt : my exposure to Nazi "justice" -- Making up her own mind -- Juris imprudence -- Appendix. Selected correspondence from a 47-plus-year legal career. | |
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