The Great Trials of the Twenties: The Watershed Decade in America's Courtrooms (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781885119520)

1920s America was at peace at home and abroad but issues facing the nation were highlighted by a series of trials including baseball's Black Sox, Al Capone, John T. Scopes, Sacco and Vanzetti, Leopold and Loeb, and the court martial of Billy Mitchell. Americans will find this book on trials of the "Roaring Twenties" provocative. Great Trials begins with an extensive introduction describing "the setting" of that tumultuous decade, and follows with an in-depth examination of 10 trials, touching on nearly every facet of American life. Each case is a fascinating story, and the fierce jousts in these courtrooms impart to the reader both how different things once were, and how much the nature of argumentative individuals has remained exactly the same.

Author: Robert Grant, Joseph Katz
ISBN-10: 1885119526
ISBN-13: 9781885119520
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Language: English
Published: 12/22/1998
Pages: 308
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.51lbs
Size: 9.27h x 6.25w x 0.97d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/1998 pg. 1592
Publishers Weekly 11/09/1998 pg. 68
Booklist 12/15/1998 pg. 710
Library Journal 11/15/1998 pg. 79