Sadakat Kadri
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The Trial: A History, from Socrates to O. J. Simpson
Sadakat Kadri
For as long as accuser and accused have faced each other in public, criminal trials have been establishing far more than who did what to whom—and in this fascinating book, Sadakat Kadri surveys four thousand years of courtroom drama.
A brilliantly engaging writer, Kadri journeys from the silence of ancient Egypt’s Hall of the Dead to the clamor of twenty-first-century Hollywood to show how emotion and fear have inspired Western notions of justice–and the extent to which they still riddle its trials today. He explains, for example, how the jury emerged in…
