Gideon's Trumpet

How One Man, a Poor Prisoner, Took His Case to the Supreme Court-And Changed Thelaw of the United States

von Anthony Lewis

288 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The classic bestseller from a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist that tells the compelling true story of one man's fight for the right to legal counsel for every defendent. A history of the landmark case of Clarence Earl Gideon's fight for the right to legal counsel. Notes, table of cases, index. The classic backlist bestseller. More than 800,000 sold since its first pub date of 1964.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Politik und Staat Politische Kontrolle, Propaganda und Freiheitsrechte Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• ISBN: 9780679723127
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 23.04.1989
• Größe: 204 x 132 mm
• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group