A Trial by Jury - Brossura

Burnett, D. Graham

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ISBN 10: 0375727515 ISBN 13: 9780375727511

Casa editrice: Vintage, 2002

Riassunto

In an incisive study of the the privileges and pitfalls of citizenship, a historian and author of Masters of All They Surveyed details his harrowing account with the American criminal justice system when he became foreman of a sequestered jury debating the guilt or innocence of an individual accused of a brutal murder. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

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Recensione

“[Burnett] is a graceful, economical writer, with a sharp eye for detail and a nuanced feel for character. . . . Irresistible.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Immensely readable.” —The Washington Post

“Burnett manages to paint vivid portraits of his fellow-jurors and examine the knottier issues of class, race, and gender that complicate the justice system’s search for objective truth.” —The New Yorker

“A pleasure to read . . . Illuminating and, ultimately, uplifting.” —The Nation

“Never have we been privy to actual jury room deliberations in all of their stark human complexity and perversity — and certainly never under the guidance of a sensibility, intelligence, and narrative skill like Mr. Burnett’s.” —New York Law Journal

L'autore

D. Graham Burnett is a historian of science and the author of Masters of All They Surveyed. After graduating from Princeton University, he was a Marshall Scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1999, Chicago’s Newberry Library awarded him the Nebenzahl Prize in the History of Cartography. A 1999–2000 Fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, he has taught at Yale and Columbia Universities, and is currently an assistant professor in the history department at Princeton.

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• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0375727515
• ISBN 13: 9780375727511
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 208