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From the authors of the critically acclaimed Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury comes a collection of closing arguments that spans 250 years and eight landmark trials that have redefined civil rights in America and profoundly affected our society.
Every day millions of Americans enjoy the freedom to decide what they do with their property, their bodies, their speech, and their votes. However, the rights to these freedoms have not always been guaranteed. Our civil rights have been assured by cases that have produced monumental shifts in America's cultural, social, and legal landscape over the past three centuries.
Until now, the closing arguments from these trials have been unavailable to the lay reader -- except in the lasting effects of the decisions that they influenced. But here the authors have collected some of the most pivotal and exciting closing arguments in history -- from the Amistad case, in which John Quincy Adams brought the injustice of slavery to the center stage of American politics, to the Susan B. Anthony decision, which paved the way to success for women's suffrage, to the Larry Flynt trial, in which the porn king became an unlikely champion for freedom of speech.
One instance demonstrates how bad lawyering can make bad law -- the Carrie Buck case, in which the Supreme Court upheld the forced sterilization of women, a decision still on the books today.
Each of the eight chapters presents a case in the context of American society -- then and now -- and includes a brief historical introduction, a biographical sketch of the attorney involved, an analysis of the closing argument, and a summary of the impact of the trial's conclusion on its participants and our country. In clear, jargon-free prose, Michael S Lief and H. Mitchell Caldwell make these pivotal, society-changing cases come to vibrant life for every reader -- fully revealing the trials that have helped resolve America's most complex civil issues and define our lives.
迈克尔•利夫(Michael S Lief) 曾从事报社编辑工作,现任美国加利福尼亚州文图拉市高级副检察官。 米切尔•考德威尔(H. Mitchell Caldwell) 美国佩波戴恩大学(Pepperdine University)法学院法学教授。
来北京之前,饭老师送了我一本书,新星出版社引进的《摇摇欲坠的哭墙:改变我们生活方式的终结辩论》。看一眼这个不算短的中文名,是无法知道书中的内容的,而原书的名字叫And The Walls Came Tumbling Down, greatest closing arguments protecting civil liberties,非常简洁...
评分这本书的文字其实是很枯燥的,但是难得的仅靠内容来征服你的书,跨过那枯燥的文字,会发现内容很精彩,当然,民主的正义即使在美国,也有被夸大之嫌,但有时我们可能需要这种鼓励,才能依旧对未来充满希望。相比那些法律内容,我更喜欢探究的是,到底是怎样的各种偶然,必然的...
评分介绍的事件还算不错,但是作者的文笔也太冗长了,有些人物和事件也不是很重要和主题关系也不大,还罗里啰嗦介绍一大堆
评分这本书的文字其实是很枯燥的,但是难得的仅靠内容来征服你的书,跨过那枯燥的文字,会发现内容很精彩,当然,民主的正义即使在美国,也有被夸大之嫌,但有时我们可能需要这种鼓励,才能依旧对未来充满希望。相比那些法律内容,我更喜欢探究的是,到底是怎样的各种偶然,必然的...
评分有控辩双方的说辞,更有法官的判言,完整的closing,富于现场感 只可惜,翻译得不象中文。如果译者是冯象先生的话,就完美了。 ----------------- 读完九人,觉得盒饭来翻译的话,可能更合适
And the Walls Came Tumbling Down pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024