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Popular trials: rhetoric, mass media, and the law

Robert Hariman
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  • Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • Preface (page vii)
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • 1. Performing the Laws: Popular Trials and Social Knowledge (Robert Hariman, page 17)
  • 2. Constitutional Argument in a National Theater: The Impeachment Trail of Dr. Henry Sacheverell (John Louis Lucaites, page 31)
  • 3. Two Stories of the Scopes Trial: Legal and Journalistic Articulations of the Legitimacy of Science and Religion (Lawrance M. Bernabo and Celeste Michelle Condit, page 55)
  • 4. Constraints on Persuasion in the Chicago Seven Trial (Juliet Dee, page 86)
  • 5. Power, Knowledge, and Insanity: The Trial of John W. Hinckley, Jr. (William F. Lewis, page 114)
  • 6. The Claus von Bulow Retrial: Lights, Camera, Genre? (Susan J. Drucker and Janice Platt Hunold, page 133)
  • 7. The Saga of Roger Hedgecock: A Case Study in Trial by Local Media (Larry A. Williamson, page 148)
  • 8. Crime as Rhetoric: The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (J. Justin Gustainis, page 164)
  • 9. Mediating the Laws: Popular Trials and the Mass Media (Barry Brummett, page 179)
  • Notes (page 194)
  • Bibliography (page 238)
  • Contributors (page 251)
  • Index (page 253)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JAH 78.2 (1991): 717-718 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2079647
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Published: 1993
Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780817304744 (hardcover)
  • 9780817381943 (ebook)
  • 9780817306984 (paper)
Subject
  • Rhetoric
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