Discusses eight criminal trials tried in United States' courts, including the trials of Sacco and Vanzetti, Leopold and Loeb, Bruno Richard Hauptmann, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the Chicago Eight, Sirhan B. Sirhan, and James Earl Ray.
Presents accounts of eight significant trials in the twentieth century, including the Scopes trial, Watergate, Brown v. the Board of Education, and the Hinckley trial.
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.