Judgment and Mercy (eBook)

The Turbulent Life and Times of the Judge Who Condemned the Rosenbergs

Martin J. Siegel (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
448 Seiten
Three Hills (Verlag)
978-1-5017-6854-5 (ISBN)

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2023 National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize Finalist

In Judgment and Mercy, Martin J. Siegel examines the complex life and career of Irving Kaufman, the judge infamous for sentencing Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to death for atomic espionage in 1951.

While many saw the Rosenberg affair as a McCarthyite stain on American justice, Kaufman later became a leading progressive, issuing key rulings on school desegregation, prison reform, and free speech.

Yet the Rosenberg case haunted him. Decades later, revelations of judicial misconduct led to renewed protests and calls for impeachment. His Supreme Court ambitions faded, and family tragedy deepened his suffering.

Absorbingly told, Judgment and Mercy reveals a judge both ambitious and tormented, exploring his influence on American history and the long shadow of a decision that shaped his legacy.

Autor

Martin J. Siegel is Professor of Law at South Texas College of Law, Houston. After clerking for Judge Kaufman, he served as an Assistant US Attorney in Manhattan and on the staff of the US Senate Judiciary Committee. His writing has been published in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Houston Chronicle, and legal journals.

Inhalt

Prologue: The Funeral
1. Isidore Mortem
2. Demon Boy Prosecutor
3. A Dream Come True
4. At Home on the Bench and Park Avenue
5. The Trial of the Century
6. Worse Than Murder
7. Immortality
8. Beaten by the Harvards
9. Apalachin and the Little Rock of the North
10. Elevation and Descent
11. The Forgotten Man
12. Hippieland
13. The Most Cherished Tenet
14. Annus Horribilis
15. Some Form of Justice
16. Keep the Beacon Burning
Epilogue: "I Can't Believe I'm Going to Die"

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.3.2023
• Zusatzinfo: 15 b&w halftones
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
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• Schlagworte: American Justice • American Law • American law, Attica prisons, famous law cases, Cold Wa, Jewish assimilation, controversial judge • ancient legal traditions • Attica prisons • Biography • class and patriotism • Cold War • controversial judge • Courtroom Drama • desegregation • famous law cases • Free Speech • Historical legal precedents • Impeachment • insanity defense • Irving Robert Kaufman • Irving Robert Kaufman, Julius and EthelRosenberg • Irving Robert Kaufman, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg,law and lawyers,legal history,famous law cases,courtroom drama • Jewish assimilation • John Lennon • judicial misconduct • Judicial reform • Julius and Ethel Rosenberg • law and lawyers • legal archives • legal biography • legal cases. • legal codes • Legal culture • legal customs • legal development • legal doctrines • Legal Documents • Legal Education • Legal Evolution • legal heritage • Legal History • legal ideologies • Legal Institutions • legal jurisprudence • Legal methodology • legal movements • Legal reform • Martin J. Siegel • political evolution • progressive jurist • rosenbergs • twentieth-century law
• ISBN-10: 1-5017-6854-9 / 1501768549
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-6854-5 / 9781501768545