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The Best Defense
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 345.7302
EAN: 9780394713809
Edition: 1st Vintage Books Ed
ISBN: 039471380X
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 464
Publication Date: May 12, 1983
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: May 12, 1983
Studio: Vintage
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Editorial Review:
The author presents his most famous, and infamous, cases and clients, and in the process, takes a critical, informed look at a legal system that he regards as deeply corrupt.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - His Best; A Riveting and Important Book
Dershowitz has become a highly controversial writer and personality for a number of reasons: he has taken on unpopular cases, he has an enormous ego, and he is an opinionated iconoclast unafraid to offer his views on Judaism, the Middle East and other political issues with the same sense of total certainty as he does when it comes to his true area of expertise: constituional law.
All of that aside, he is a true legal scholar, and a great story teller (or at least he was when this book ... Read More
Rating:  - Poor book
The writer maybe a good lawyer but the story telling is not his best way to make a living.
Rating: - A great read for both lawyers and lay people
Dershowitz is a great writer. Love him or hate him, you can't deny this man's writing ability. His style is relatively informal, avoiding overly-intelectual language and instead opting to use plain language. This style allows the reader to focus on the content and ideas behind text, rather than constantly look words up in the dictionary. In this book, Dershowitz retells some of the more gripping cases he's been involved in. The book is partly crime novel, taking the reader thru the case step by ... Read More
Rating:  - engaging, insightful, personal, educational
this book succeeds on many levels and as such should appeal to many readers:
1. as an explanation for how our judicial system is setup and operates;
2. putting a face and personal touch behind many famous (porn star harry reams, prince of the city robert leuci, etc. etc.) and less famous, but just as interesting, trials;
3. as a series of engaging human interest stories;
4. as a chronicle of the early careers of now wildly famous people like, for example, rudy guiliani who appears ... Read More
Rating: - A great blend of stories and information
Although this book was written almost 20 years ago, the constitutional issues briught forth are timeless. I may not agree with his politics, but I can now understand how Dershowitz can sway a jury.
A phenomenal writer, Dershowitz takes his own experiences and transcends them onto paper in way that the average reader is truly gripped by the story. Along the way, we learn some of his background, we can understand his views, and we can understand how courts and government interact with the law of ... Read More
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