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Shows how trials, as media events, have had long-reaching significance in American history.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments The Opening Statement The Case of the Salem Witch Trials by Lloyd Chiasson Jr. The Case of the Amistad Mutiny by Bernell E. Tripp The Case of the Sioux Uprisings by Joseph P. McKerns The Case of Ed Johnson by Kittrell Rushing The Case of "Big Bill" Haywood by David Spencer The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti by Arthur Kaul The Case of Ossian Sweet by Elijah F. Akhahenda The Case of Clay Shaw by Robert Dardenne The Case of Manuel Noriega by Nancy McKenzie Dupont The Case of Matthew Shepard by Alfred Delahaye The Summation Bibliography About the Editor and the Contributors Index

About the Author

LLOYD CHIASSON JR. is Professor, Department of Mass Communication, Nicholls State University. Among his earlier publications are The Press in Times of Crisis (Greenwood Press, 1995) and The Press on Trial (Greenwood Press, 1997).

Reviews

?[t]his book is a valuable addition to journalism historiography. The authors argue in each case that understandings are both elusive and illusive. It is to the jurors/readers that the job falls of deciding what each case truly means, what it says about who we are and who we have been at pivotal moments in our history. In that regard, the book is thought provoking and satisfying.?-American Journalism

?General readers and lower- and upper-division undergraduates.?-Choice

"Ýt¨his book is a valuable addition to journalism historiography. The authors argue in each case that understandings are both elusive and illusive. It is to the jurors/readers that the job falls of deciding what each case truly means, what it says about who we are and who we have been at pivotal moments in our history. In that regard, the book is thought provoking and satisfying."-American Journalism

"General readers and lower- and upper-division undergraduates."-Choice

"[t]his book is a valuable addition to journalism historiography. The authors argue in each case that understandings are both elusive and illusive. It is to the jurors/readers that the job falls of deciding what each case truly means, what it says about who we are and who we have been at pivotal moments in our history. In that regard, the book is thought provoking and satisfying."-American Journalism