The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau: Psychiatry and the Law in the Gilded Age

by Charles E. Rosenberg

Book Overview

In this brilliant study, Charles Rosenberg uses the celebrated trial of Charles Guiteau, who assassinated President Garfield in 1881, to explore insanity and criminal responsibility in the Gilded Age.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226727165
• ISBN13: 9780226727165
• Release Date: January 1968
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.