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Author:

Dershowitz, Alan M.

Title:

Fundamental cases [CD audio] : the twentieth-century courtroom battles that changed our nation / Alan M. Dershowitz.

Format:

[CD audio] :

Publisher:

Recorded Books,

Copyright Date:

p2006

Description:

7 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guide (88 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.)

Subject:

Trials--United States--History--20th century.
Law--United States--History--20th century.
Audiobooks.

Notes:

Lectures given by Alan M. Dershowitz. Compact discs. In container (26 cm.). Includes bibliographical references (guide).

Contents:

The Scopes trial -- The case of Leo Frank -- Leopold and Loeb -- Julius and Ethel Rosenberg -- O.J. Simpson -- Sacco and Vanzetti -- Claus von Bülow -- Bernhard Goetz -- Mike Tyson -- Roe v. Wade -- Lawrence v. Texas -- Bill Clinton -- Bush v. Gore -- Human rights in the face of terrorism.

Summary:

In this course, professor and civil liberties lawyer Alan Dershowitz looks at history through the prism of the trial, because a trial presents a snapshot of what is going on at a particular point in time in the nation's history.

Series:

Modern scholar

ISBN:

9781419378027 (guide)
1419378023 (guide)
9781419378010 (sound discs)
1419378015 (sound discs)

LCCN:

2008643502

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

YCPD572 -- Hiawatha Public Library (Hiawatha)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)