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Author Margulies, Phillip, 1952-

Title The devil on trial : witches, anarchists, atheists, communists, and terrorists in America's courtrooms / by Phillip Margulies and Maxine Rosaler.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2008.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Children's & Young Adult Collection  CH/YA 345.7302 Margul Dev 2008    Available  ---  Gift of Susan Mandel Glazer.
Description 218 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm
Audience 1250bLexile.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-207) and index.
Contents The Salem witch trials -- The Haymarket bomb trial -- The Scopes "monkey" trial -- The trials of Alger Hiss -- The trials of Zacarias Moussaoui.
Summary 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.
Study Program Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 10.0 9.
Awards A Junior Library Guild selection
Provenance Gift of Susan Mandel Glazer.
Subject Trials -- United States.
Trials.
United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Social aspects -- United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Social aspects.
Criminal justice, Administration of.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States -- History.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
History.
Genre/Form History.
Added Author Rosaler, Maxine.
ISBN 061871717X
9780618717170