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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA beautiful, compelling, tear-jerking, mind-boggling book.--William Burroughs "Los Angeles Times" A masterful recapitulation of these anomalous events. . . . All politically literate Americans should read [it].--Timothy Sullivan, author of Unequeal Verdicts "Kirkus Reviews" If Schultz has offered us a drama that is a metaphor for this society itself, then his intensive concern with the jurors and their own special agony is its climax. His probe into their consciences--the play within the play--is a probe into the American conscience.--David Graber "Los Angeles Times" This work, aside from being a profound study of fear, is investigative journalism in its highest sense.--Studs Terkel "Los Angeles Times" "Schultz has written one of the few great trial books of our time. Taking the reader inside a uniquely American political show-trial, he demonstrates just how fragile our courts are, and how the massive poweer of the federal government can easily derail justice. . . . Any reader looking for a quick course in how a criminal trial can go wrong would do well to read The Chicago Conspiracy Trial."--Timothy Sullivan, author of Unequeal Verdicts
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Part One: Motion Will Be Denied
Part Two: Seale
Part Three: A Demonstration Here, A Demonstration There
Part Four: The Struggle for the Laugh in the Courtroom
Part Five: The Struggle for the Spirit of the Courtroom: The Defense's Case
Part Six: The Struggle for the Soul of the Nation
Part Seven: The Jury Hearing
Afterword: Constitutional Morality Play
