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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Good but long. ( )Lawrence Schiller is a master at writing non-fiction that reads like a great novel. If I weren't so entranced with the OJ Trial myself that I could quote testimony, I would say this was a dark development in American criminal justice. making it seem like a novel will make it more believable to later generations. no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0380730596, Mass Market Paperback)Just when you thought every drop of bathos, blather, and recrimination that could be squeezed out of the O. J. Simpson murder trial had been, along comes this book, which reveals the "Dream Team," Simpson's cabal of defense lawyers, as an even less charming bunch of egomaniacs and prevaricators than anyone imagined. Johnnie Cochran is a puffed-up silver-tongued bantam with suspicions that his celebrity client is, after all, guilty; Robert Shapiro is a status-obsessed moron; F. Lee Bailey almost derails the whole defense strategy more than once with his courtroom mishaps. How did these guys win? Produced by Larry Schiller, who co-wrote Simpson's jailhouse bestseller I Want to Tell You and who has a history of plumbing the depths of famously sordid murder cases, this book carries its own lurid fascination.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:03 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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