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Author Margulies, Phillip, 1952-

Title The devil on trial : witches, anarchists, atheists, communists, and terrorists in America's courtrooms / by Phillip Marguiles and Maxine Rosaler.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2008.

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Location Call No. Status
 Burlington Public Library - Teen  Y345.73 MAR    Check Shelf
Description 218 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm
Awards A Junior Library Guild selection
Study Program Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 10.0 9
Accelerated Reader AR MG 10.0 9.0 124433.
Summary Featuring five famous trials, this book examines the way an individual's right to a fair trial can be threatened when people are tempted to abandon their principles in the name of safety.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-207) and index.
Contents The Salem witch trials -- The Haymarket bomb trial -- The Scopes monkey trial -- The trials of Alger Hiss -- The trials of Zacarias Moussaoui.
Subject Trials -- United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Social aspects -- United States.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States -- History.
Added Author Rosaler, Maxine, author.
ISBN 9780618717170 reinforced $22.00
061871717X reinforced $22.00
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