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Title: Without a Doubt by Marcia Clark, Teresa Carpenter ISBN: 0-670-87089-7 Publisher: Viking Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.6 (62 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: She takes all the credit but none of the blame!
Comment: Before I read her book, my opinion of Marcia Clark was neutral, though I did think the prosecution could have done a better job with this case. After reading the book, I have no doubt about why they lost. This self-serving diatribe of Marcia's is deplorable. If you believe her, she single-handedly bore the entire burden of the case; the rest of the team only minor players! However, she will take NO responsibility for any of the prosecution's fumbles. She accuses every other player in the trial of possessing super egos, when it appears the biggest ego in the group is Marcia's.
She'll have you believe that she shrunk from the media spotlight, while every one else was seeking and revelling in it. She convenietly waited until all of the other books were published, so that she could de-bunk anything that anyone had to say about her. It is painfully obvious that the case was lost because of her ineptitude for understanding basic human feelings. Doesn't a prosecutor have to understand people, what motivates them, what angers them. what gets them to cooperate? Seemingly she wasn't blessed with any of these skills. She is appalled and offended when her "bad" witnesses turn to "good" in the civil trail. Poor, poor Marcia!
Perhaps a little introspection would have helped her. Through "Without a Doubt" the only thing Marcia Clark has proved is that she is obnoxious and disliked.
Rating: 1
Summary: Self Serving and not Informative
Comment: I have read most of the books written about the O.J. Trial. All have been more about setting forth that particular author's personal/ or political agenda and not about true analysis.
What I fail to find in any of these books is what role did the media play in turning a simple crime of passion into the racial mess that this trial came to symbolize?
This story is simple. Man and woman have a very sick/tormented relationship, where many sick games are played. One day man loses his head and murders woman and the poor guy who comes to her rescue. Man goes to trial. Man goes to jail for a crime of passion. End of story.
Instead the SCLM (So Called Liberal Media) as described in the Eric Alterman's book, "What Liberal Media," enters the picture driven by the almighty dollar and turns this simple crime into the trial of the century simply for the profit margin.
We still trust the media to inform us and they failed miserably as they have done in every important story of our generation. There is no liberal media bias. It's all about the money and polarizing the country to fuel the tragic story of the Simpson case was more important to the Media than actually telling the real story.
They forgot that Nicole and O.J. loved each other and created two very lovely kids together. Race had nothing to do witth it until the media focussed on it.
Marcia Clark lost her case, because she drank the Kool Aid from the media and followed their narrative as opposed to trying the case for what it was a crime of passion.
Rating: 4
Summary: A No Win Situation - But a Good Book
Comment: I read four books after the trial. I read the Schiller 1000 page saga, Outrage, the present book and a book on Johnny Cochrane. Each book was different and gives us different insights.
I think it is clear to any reasonable and unbiased thinking person that O.J. did in fact kill Nicole and Ron and it is just as it is clear that Lee Harvey Oswald shot JFK. Also it is clear from the other reviewers that Marcia Clark evokes a certain emotional response that colors their view of the book. If you still think O.J. is innocent then I think that is a personal problem or internal devil that you must deal with but it is not related to reality. As the title says "Without a Doubt" he was guilty.
Johnny made buckets of money as a criminal attorney. Both he and Shapiro could make sums of money in hours that only the rest of us can dream about. Johnny drove a Rolls and Shapiro rubbed elbows with the LA movers and shakers.
Marcia is more like the average citizen, working for the DA's office, probably driving a Chevrolet or Honda. She was a single divorced mother that commutes to work. After the trial she had decided enough was enough, and she wrote the book along with everyone else. And I say good for her! Make a buck or two! Its America.
Now for the book. It is what you might expect. It is the story of her involvement with the trial. It presents some prior background on her life and earlier trials and then goes in detail through the O.J. saga and what it was like from her perspective. I think is a well written book and for the most part entertaining. "Outrage" is a bit more gripping and Schiller's "American Tragedy" longer and more comprehensive. But this book is what we would expect. It deals mainly with her role and it is a solid job. She was basically a civil servant and she was the front "man" facing a raft of America's most famous lawyers including the above mentioned plus F. Lee Bailey. Then to complicate things, the whole mess was presided over by the star blinded Judge Ito. Together they faced essentially 12 black female jurors who loved Johnny and O.J.
Could she win? "Without a Doubt" she could not win, but it was nothing to do with her.
Recommend. 4 stars.
Jack in Toronto
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Title: In Contempt by Christopher A. Darden, Jess Walter ISBN: 0060391839 Publisher: Harpercollins Pub. Date: 01 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Evidence Dismissed: The Inside Story of the Police Investigation of O. J. Simpson by Tom Lange, Phillip Vannatter, Dan E. Moldea, Philip Vanatter ISBN: 0671009591 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1997 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: American Tragedy by Lawrence Schiller, James Willwerth ISBN: 0380730596 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Outrage: The Five Reasons Why O. J. Simpson Got Away With Murder by Vincent Bugliosi ISBN: 0440223822 Publisher: Island Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Reasonable Doubts: The Criminal Justice System and the O.J. Simpson Case by Alan M. Dershowitz ISBN: 068483264X Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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