Worse Than the Devil

Anarchists, Clarence Darrow, and Justice in a Time of Terror

Dean A. Strang (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2016 | Second Revised Edition
University of Wisconsin Press (Verlag)
978-0-299-30914-5 (ISBN)

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In 1917 a bomb exploded in a Milwaukee police station, killing nine officers and a civilian. Days later, a trial began for eleven Italian immigrants who had already been in jail for months for an unrelated riot. The specter of the bombing, for which no one had been arrested, haunted the proceedings. Against the backdrop of World War I and amid a prevailing hatred and fear of radical immigrants and anarchists, the Italians had an unfair trial. Famed attorney Clarence Darrow led an appeal that gained freedom for most of the convicted, but his own methods were deeply suspect. The entire case left a dark, though largely forgotten, stain on American justice.

Dean A. Strang is a criminal defense lawyer in Madison, Wisconsin, and an adjunct professor at the law schools of the University of Wisconsin and Marquette University.

Erscheinungsdatum	17.05.2016
Zusatzinfo	20 black & white photographs, 1 map
Verlagsort	Wisconsin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	149 x 226 mm
Gewicht	409 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	0-299-30914-2 / 0299309142
ISBN-13	978-0-299-30914-5 / 9780299309145
Zustand	Neuware