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And the walls came tumbling down : closing arguments that changed the way we live, from protecting free speech to winning women's suffrage to defending the right to die
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And the walls came tumbling down : closing arguments that changed the way we live, from protecting free speech to winning women's suffrage to defending the right to die

Author: Michael S Lief; Harry M Caldwell
Publisher: New York : Scribner, ©2004.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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In the successful tradition of the authors' "Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury" comes a compendium of closing arguments that have redefined civil rights in America.

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Genre/Form: Popular works
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Lief, Michael S.
And the walls came tumbling down.
New York : Scribner, c2004
(OCoLC)645999557
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Michael S Lief; Harry M Caldwell
ISBN: 0743246667 9780743246668
OCLC Number: 54857563
Notes: "A Lisa Drew book."
Includes index.
Description: 404 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: To be or not to be : Karen Ann Quinlan and the right to die --
The Amistad odyssey : American courts decide if a free man can be forced into slavery --
Enemy within : radio star John Henry Faulk challenges the McCarthy-era blacklist --
A woman's rightful place : Susan B. Anthony casts a vote and battles for the ballot --
The truth shall set you free : the English crown and colonial government try muzzling newspaper publisher John Peter Zenger and the fledgling American press --
The porn king and the preacher : Larry Flynt takes on the moral majority and becomes an unlikely champion for free speech --
What price too high? : One woman's fight for survival against cancer and her HMO --
Cleansing the gene pool : Carrie Buck's forced sterilization and the limits on reproductive freedom.
Responsibility: Michael S. Lief, H. Mitchell Caldwell.
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