Trials of the Century [2 volumes]
Trials of the Century [2 volumes]

Author: Scott P. Johnson

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2010-10-06

Total Pages: 858

ISBN-13: 1598842625

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This comprehensive set of essays documents the most important criminal, civil, and political trials in the United States from colonial times to the present, examining their impact on both legal history and popular culture. Crime and punishment are of perennial interest across the human species. Trials of the Century: An Encyclopedia of Popular Culture and the Law examines some of the most important (and infamous) cases in American history, placing them in both historical and legal context. Among the landmark cases considered in these two volumes are the 1692 Salem Witch Trials, the Scopes "Monkey" Trial, and the O.J. Simpson murder trial. A number of civil lawsuits and political trials are also included, such as the impeachment trials of Presidents Andrew Johnson and William Jefferson Clinton. Entries in the encyclopedia detail the events leading to each trial and introduce the key players, with a focus on judges, lawyers, witnesses, defendants, victims, media, and the public. In addition, the aftermath of the trial and its impact are analyzed from a scholarly, yet straightforward, perspective, emphasizing how the trial affected the law and society at large.

The Salem Witch Trials Legend
The Salem Witch Trials Legend

Author: Drac Von Stoller

Publisher: Drac Von Stoller

Published:

Total Pages: 3

ISBN-13:

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It’s October, and Halloween was just around the corner. A young girl was named Sarah after one of her descendants Sarah Good who was accused of witchcraft and was hanged after the Salem Witch trials in 1692 decided to visit the Salem Witch trial site on Halloween night. Sarah only lived about a mile away from the famous Salem Witch trial site and was a dream she was ready to make come true. As darkness set in Sarah told her parents she would be visiting a friend and would be back after midnight but that was a lie because she was going to visit the Salem Witch trial site and conjure up a dead witch named Sarah Good. Sarah gathered her things and drove off into the night to her destination. Sarah had visited the place the day before during the daylight hours to see where the best place to enter was without being noticed by law enforcement officers who may be patrolling the area. Sarah was so excited to be a direct descendant of a famous witch and thought that if she did conjure Sarah Good up from the dead it would be an unforgettable moment. It’s going to be one she wished she never conjured up. Sarah parked her car off the side of the road just about a block away from her destination. She gathered her things from her car and set off into the foggy night as her heart was pounding with excitement. Then as she was nearing her destination a police car was headed in her direction with lights flashing and siren blaring and she thought he was going to slowly drive up beside her to see what she was doing on this dark foggy road but the police car was in hot pursuit of an escaped inmate who just killed a guard at the prison in a stolen car. Sarah knew the officer would question her and tell her parents to come to pick her up but his car just kept speeding down the foggy dark road past her and she felt a sigh of relief and just kept walking until she finally entered the Salem Witch trial site in Danvers, MA. As she entered the site, she paused for a moment to catch her breath and pressed onward through the dense fog.

The Miler
The Miler

Author: Steve Scott

Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13:

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Meet Steve Scott, outstanding world-class athlete with an indefatigable zest for life and will to win. Here is the story of the track star and the man, whose talent and determination have taken him to the pinnacle of worldwide track and field for the better part of his twenty-seven-year career. A three-time Olympian blessed with the miler's prized combination of strength and speed, he earned a top-ten track and field world ranking eleven times and distinction as America's number-one miler from 1977 to 1986. The Miler takes us inside Scott's training regimen and mental preparation techniques, then invites us behind the scenes into the controversial topics of drug abuse, track-and-field politics, and under-the-table payoffs that transformed mile racing in the United States and abroad. Scott recounts his evolution from promising high school runner to disciplined international elite athlete. He also covers the modern history of the sport, from the days when athletes had to wait hours after meets to pick up their meager appearance fees to the current era of powerful sports agents, lucrative sponsorships, and bigmoney prizes.

The Trials of a Scold
The Trials of a Scold

Author: Jeff Biggers

Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books

Published: 2017-11-07

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1250065127

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A portrait of one of America's first female muckrakers, who was convicted in a bizarre 1829 trial as a "common scold," describes the tenacity that earned her the first presidential interview ever granted to a woman.

The Linda Wolfe Collection
The Linda Wolfe Collection

Author: Linda Wolfe

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2017-10-31

Total Pages: 1014

ISBN-13: 1504049039

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Five torn-from-the-headlines true crime books from an Edgar Award–nominated author and “one of our best reporters” (John Leonard). Linda Wolfe delves deep into the crimes that defy explanation—and the twisted minds of those who commit them. In these five books, she combines masterful storytelling with brilliant psychological insight. Wasted: On an August night in 1986, Jennifer Levin left a Manhattan bar with Robert Chambers. The next morning, her strangled, battered body was found in Central Park. This New York Times Notable Book provides a “fascinating, horrifying, and heart-breaking” account of the so-called Preppie Murder, the crime that shocked a city and a nation (Ann Rule). The Professor and the Prostitute: The chilling case of a college professor who bludgeoned to death the prostitute he loved—plus eight other true crimes, including the bizarre story of the Marcus brothers, twin gynecologists, that inspired the David Cronenberg film Dead Ringers. Double Life: The riveting story of how the chief judge of the New York State Court of Appeals was brought down by his sexual obsession with a stunning socialite. The Murder of Dr. Chapman: Wolfe skillfully weaves court transcripts, love letters, and period recollections into an edge-of-your-seat historical thriller about a notorious crime of passion that rocked pre–Civil War America. Love Me to Death: Wolfe embarks on a search for the serial killer who murdered her friend in this “intriguing insider’s look into the convoluted mind of a killer” (The Plain Dealer).