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Title: The Best Defense by Alan M. Dershowitz ISBN: 039471380X Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Pub. Date: May, 1983 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: A great blend of stories and information
Comment: Although this book was written almost 20 years ago, the constitutional issues briught forth are timeless. I may not agree with his politics, but I can now understand how Dershowitz can sway a jury.
A phenomenal writer, Dershowitz takes his own experiences and transcends them onto paper in way that the average reader is truly gripped by the story. Along the way, we learn some of his background, we can understand his views, and we can understand how courts and government interact with the law of the land.
Dershowitz is not afraid to press his personal viewpoints, but he does not make that the focus of the book. Instead, he focuses on telling stories, describing supreme injustices, and informing teh reder as to the workings of the modern day court system.
I felt his examples were well chosen and fit with his goal to expose the reader to a broad view of the constitutional issues that must be faced by society. I would have liked if some opposing viewpoints to the arguments were mentioned, but then we would not have a book solely written by Dershowitz, would we?
Overall, this book will entertain and inform any reader interested in the law, constitutional rights, or just courtroom dramas in general. I found the book very intriguing and Dershowitz has shown that he is just as good a writer as he is a lwayer.
Rating: 5
Summary: Dershowitz's Laws
Comment: The first ten pages will teach the average reader more than a year of reading a newspaper or ten years of watching "Law and Order." What is more, Dershowitz backs his account with personal experiences and harrowing tales. Such anecdotal evidence is not compelling but can serve as a wakeup call.
The author lays out laws of criminal justice, not as portrayed in books or ideals, but as practiced in courtrooms. The most telling of these is the last -- no one wants justice. To be sure, that law is imprecisely put. What Dershowitz means is that, in an adversary system, almost no participant wants to do justice more than she or he wants to win.
Why might such an insight matter? Well, when I listened to Marcia Clark and Geraldo Rivera and others whine about O.J., I was nonplussed to endure their cant about the search for justice. When Johnnie Cochran and Robert Shapiro packaged their defense as the pursuit of justice, I cringed. If Clark and the prosecutors or Bob and Johnnie were seeking justice, what were they doing in court? You don't look for filet mignon in a hindo diner!
Dershowitz need not convince any reader that the criminal justice system is as flawed or that Dershowitz is as flawless as the book pretends. Nonetheless, the read will be an enlightening, entertaining call to see and think anew.
Rating: 5
Summary: An arcane process made fascinating
Comment: The author of this book is a law professor who does appellant work part time. Unlike the cut and thrust of jury work appeals have generally been seen as dry rarefied and uninteresting. The author however writes in an entertaining and self deprecating way which brings the process alive. It is one of the most enjoyable books written about the law that I have read for some time.
The author also writes about the cases he loses. So many books by advocates focus on the success and are about self grandisment.
Overall the impression given is how much of a dogged slog it is to achieve justice in the American System and how much calculation and thought has to go into every strategy and move. One of the amazing things in the book is how the author is so critical of a number of judges and how willing he is to make those criticisms.
It is an excellent book which shows the many flaws and weakness of the American justice system.
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Title: The Trial Lawyers: The Nation's Top Litigators Tell How They Win by Emily Couric ISBN: 0312051727 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: November, 1990 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Art of Cross-Examination by Francis L. Wellman ISBN: 0684843048 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: BLACK'S LAW: A Criminal Lawyer Reveals His Defense Strategies in Four Cliffhanger Cases by Roy Black ISBN: 0684863065 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Letters to a Young Lawyer by Alan M. Dershowitz ISBN: 0465016316 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 16 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Ladies And Gentlemen Of The Jury: Greatest Closing Arguments In Modern Law by Ben Bycel, H. Mitchell Caldwell, Michael S. Lief ISBN: 0684859483 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 15 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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