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Title: The Hangman's Knot: Lynching, Legal Execution, and America's Struggle with the Death Penalty by Eliza Steelwater ISBN: 0-8133-4042-X Publisher: Westview Press Pub. Date: July, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Hangman's Knot
Comment: Excellent book, but not a book that is easy to read. Facing our country's history in this area makes us look at our past and often gives a different slant on what we have accepted as history. The information in the book is so well researched and documented. The author does not rely on personal opinion to make her points, but cites numerous sources. She presents evidence and allows the reader to form their own opinion. Anyone with an interest in history and the social conscience of America would find this a worthwhile read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Understanding capital punishment
Comment: This book's importance reaches beyond the debate over the death penalty as it demonstrates and explains the relationship between power, money and punishment in America. It is a fascinating story, representing years of research by one of the best and most original minds in the country. Dr. Steelwater's examples brilliantly illustrate communities' and the State's involvement with capital punishment within the context of the contemporary events that shaped American attitudes toward community vigilantism and State supported and regulated legal execution. From the frontier experience to industrial labor unrest, from the racial violence of the Deep South to the mayhem of Western boom towns (and much more), violent historical events have shaped our attitudes about the need for and right of the community and the State to take life as retribution and/or deterrent. The Hangman's Knot is immensely readable with a bibliographic essay for each chapter. It should be included in the library of anyone who has an opinion about capital punishment. American history, social theory and economic geography are elegantly merged in this deeply intelligent and humane book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent!
Comment: This superbly written and authoritative book is a must for anyone wishing to learn more about America's relationship with the death penalty. The author has a readable style and uses historical and latter-day case studies to provide an excellent context within this thought-provoking text. Highly recommended to all!
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Title: Kiss of Death: America's Love Affair With the Death Penalty by John D. Bessler ISBN: 1555535666 Publisher: Northeastern University Press Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Contradictions of American Capital Punishment by Franklin E. Zimring ISBN: 0195152360 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: The Death Penalty : An American History by Stuart Banner ISBN: 0674010833 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: 31 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Civil Wars: Gay Marriage in America by David Moats ISBN: 015101017X Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 02 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Debating the Death Penalty: Should America Have Capital Punishment?: The Experts on Both Sides Make Their Best Case by Hugo Adam Bedau, Paul Cassell ISBN: 0195169832 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: February, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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