No Crueler Tyrannies: Accusation, False Witness, and Other Terrors of Our Times
- ISBN-10
- 0743228405
- ISBN-13
- 9780743228404
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 239
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004-03-02
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Author
- Dorothy Rabinowitz
Description
A Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist draws on her work with high-profile child sex-abuse cases to contend that the American legal system is subject to manipulation and complicity that enables erroneous convictions and the destruction of innocent lives. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.
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