Popular Trials - Rhetoric, Mass Media, and the Law

Contemporary scholarship illustrates the law's increasingly powerful role in American life; legal education, in turn, has focused on the problems and techniques of communication. This book addresses these interests through critical study of eight popular trials: the 17th-century trial of Dr. Henry Sacheverell, and the 20th-century trials of Scopes, the Rosenbergs, the Chicago Seven, the Catonsville Nine, John Hinckley, Claus von Bulow, and San Diego Mayor Larry Hedgecock.

About the author

Robert Hariman is Associate Professor of Speech Communication at Drake University.

Product details

• Authors: Robert (EDT) Hariman
• Assisted by: Robert Hariman (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.03.1993
• EAN: 9780817306984
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-0698-4
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Studies in Rhetoric/Communication; Studies Rhetoric & Communicati; Studies in Rhetoric and Commun; Studies Rhetoric & Communicati
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law