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Author Margulies, Phillip, 1952-

Title The devil on trial : witches, anarchists, atheists, communists, and terrorists in America's courtrooms / by Phillip Margulies and Maxine Rosaler.

Imprint Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2008.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  345.02 M337d 2008    ---  Available
 PHS Non-Fiction  345.73 Margulies    ---  Available
Description 218 p. : ill., ports. ; 26 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [203] - 207) and index.
Contents The Salem witch trials -- The Haymarket bomb trial -- The Scopes "monkey" trial -- The trials of Alger Hiss -- The trials of Zacarias Moussaoui.
Indexed In: SLJ Sep 2008
VOYA 2008 no. 4
Kirkus 07/15/2008
Summary Featuring five famous trials, this book examines the way an individual's right to a fair trial can be threatened when people are tempted to abandon their principles in the name of safety.
Study Program AR RL 10th PHS
Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG RL 10.0 9
Awards A Junior Library Guild selection
Subject Trials -- United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Social aspects -- United States.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States -- History.
Trials -- United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Social aspects -- United States.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States -- History.
Trials -- United States.
Administration of criminal justice -- United States.
Discrimination in criminal justice -- United States -- History.
Added Author Rosaler, Maxine.
ISBN 9780618717170
061871717X

 
    
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