Lise Pearlman

Gebundenes Buch

With Justice for Some

Politically Charged Criminal Trials in the Early 20th Century That Helped Shape Today's America

Beschreibung

Lise Pearlman's With Justice for Some: Politically Charged Criminal Trials in the Early 20th Century that Helped Shape Today's America takes a fascinating look back at headline-grabbing criminal trials from the early 1900s as a cultural backdrop for contentious issues we face as a nation today. In her first book The Sky's The Limit: People v. Newton, The REAL Trial of the 20th Century? these early trials were compared to the 1968 death penalty trial of Black Panther leader Huey Newton, which the author considered the real trial of the century neglected by most historians. Here, these riveting trials are reexamined with emphasis on the insights they provide to today's political climate. Pearlman's new book opens with a remarkable admission by former FBI Chief James Comey in a speech on Lincoln's birthday in February 2015: "All of us in law enforcement must be honest enough to acknowledge that much of our history is not pretty. At many points in American history, law enforcement enforced the status quo . . . that was often brutally unfair to disfavored groups." He invited all Americans to re-examine our "cultural inheritance" with fresh eyes. That is what Pearlman's new book seeks to do. This well-researched volume takes advantage of the passage of time to put each trial into perspective from work done decades, sometimes even a century, later by investigative journalists and historians who unearthed far more evidence of what really happened in the events that made banner headlines in the early 20th century. She makes the case that by revisiting riveting high-stakes trials that still have ramifications today, we can gain a better understanding of the extent cultural bias has permeated the fabric of our culture -- and a better premise from which to move forward as a nation than the whitewashed history so many of us were taught in school.

Autor

Lise Pearlman is an acclaimed author, a former trial lawyer and judge. She is a nationally recognized speaker on famous trials of the 20th century and appeared in Stanley Nelson's acclaimed 2015 film "The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution" as the country's leading expert on the 1968 Huey Newton death penalty trial. Her first and second history books, "The Sky's The Limit: People v. Newton, The Real Trial of the 20th Century?" [Regent Press 2012] and "American Justice on Trial: People v. Newton" [Regent Press 2016] won awards in the categories of law, history and multiculturalism. Her most recent work, "With Justice for Some: Politically Charged Criminal Trials in the Early 20th Century That Helped Shape Today's America" [Regent Press 2017] has also garnered rave reviews. Pearlman was an undergraduate in the first class that included women at Yale University when Panther Party co-founder Bobby Seale was tried for murder in New Haven. She then moved to the Bay Area where she attended Berkeley Law School and then clerked for California Chief Justice Donald Wright before practicing law in Oakland. From 1989-1995, she served as the first Presiding Judge of the California State Bar Court. Pearlman has spent almost all her adult life in the Bay Area where Fay Stender practiced and the Huey Newton "trial of the century" took place and where she still resides. Ms. Pearlman is currently producing the companion documentary to her 2016 book American Justice on Trial: People v. Newton. (www.americanjusticeontrial.com)

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Regent Press
• Seitenzahl: 446
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 870g
• ISBN-13: 9781587905773
• ISBN-10: 1587905779
• Artikelnr.: 62092794