Popular Trials: Rhetoric, Mass Media, and the Law

Book Overview

Contemporary scholarship illustrates the lawOCOs increasingly powerful role in American life; legal education, in turn, has focused on the problems and techniques of communication.aThis book addresses these interests through critical study of eight popular trials: the 17th-century trial of Dr. Henry Sacheverell, and the 20th-century trials of Scopes, the Rosenbergs, the Chicago Seven, the Catonsville Nine, John Hinckley, Claus von Bulow, and San Diego...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817304746
• ISBN13: 9780817304744
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: University of Alabama Press
• Length: 269 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.