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The great trials of the twenties : the watershed decade in America's courtrooms / by Robert Grant and Joseph Katz.

Title
  1. The great trials of the twenties : the watershed decade in America's courtrooms / by Robert Grant and Joseph Katz.
Author
  1. Grant, Robert B., 1933-
Published by
  1. Rockville Centre, NY : Sarpedon, c1998.
Format
  1. Book/text

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Additional authors
  1. Katz, Joseph, 1924-2009
  2. Katz, Joseph, 1937-
Description
  1. 282 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports.; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. Focuses on ten separate trials that collectively touch every facet of American life.
Subject
  1. Trials -- United States.
  2. Insull, Samuel, 1859-1938 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
  3. Capone, Al, 1899-1947.
  4. Scopes, John Thomas -- Trials, litigation, etc.
  5. Arbuckle, Roscoe, 1887-1933 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
  6. Mitchell, William, 1879-1936.
  7. Leopold, Nathan Freudenthal, 1904 or 1905-1971.
  8. Loeb, Richard A., 1905 or 1906-1936.
  9. Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Genre/Form
  1. Trials, litigation, etc.
Contents
  1. Sacco and Vanzetti -- The Chicago "Black Sox" -- The trials of "Fatty" Arbuckle -- The People vs. Al Capone -- David C. Stephenson -- The Scopes trial -- Loeb-Leopold -- Teapot Dome -- The case of Samuel Insull -- The court martial of Billy Mitchell.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Language
  1. English
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-277) and index.
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain