Popular Trials – Rhetoric, Mass Media, and the Law Hariman Paperback

Popular Trials – Rhetoric, Mass Media, and the Law Hariman Paperback

Popular TrialsRhetoric, Mass Media, and the Law\nAuthor(s): Robert Hariman\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Alabama Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Alabama Press\nISBN-13: 9780817306984, 978-0817306984\nSynopsis\nContemporary scholarship illustrates the lawu2019s increasingly powerful role in American life; legal education, in turn, has focused on the problems and techniques of communication. This 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 Mayor Larry Hedgecock. Such trials spark major public debates, become symbols of public life, and legitimize particular beliefs and institutions. Despite high visibility and drama, however, the popular trial has not received sufficient study as persuasive event. Lying at the intersection of th.

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