Verdicts of History (The Thomas Fleming Library)

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In Verdicts of History, New York Times bestselling historian Thomas Fleming highlights six courtroom dramas that modified the way forward for The united states. From unexpected verdicts, like the acquittal won by John Adams when he defended British soldiers charged with the Boston Massacre in 1770 to stirred passions when abolitionist John Brown used to be convicted of murder – a precedent to the Civil War – to the breakthrough in racial relations when Clarence Darrow won a stunning “now not guilty” verdict for black physician Ossian Sweet – at a time when black Americans may hardly expect a fair trial. Fleming also includes the pains of Aaron Burr for treason and a well known congressman for murder. In courtrooms all the way through the nation’s history, vivid emotion and heated rhetoric have established consequential precedents and enlarged average women and men to historical dimensions.

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