Kirjahaku

America's most prominent legal mind and the #1 bestselling author of Chutzpah and The Best Defense, Alan Dershowitz, recounts his legal autobiography, describing how he came to the law, as well as the cases that have changed American jurisprudence over the past 50 years, most of which he has personally been involved in.In Taking the Stand, Dershowitz reveals the evolution of his own thinking on such fundamental issues as censorship and the First Amendment, Civil Rights, Abortion, homicide and the increasing role that science plays in a legal defense. Alan Dershowitz, the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard University, and the author of such acclaimed bestsellers as Chutzpah, The Best Defense, and Reversal of Fortune, for the first time recounts his legal biography, describing his struggles academically at Yeshiva High School growning up in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, his successes at Yale, clerking for Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, his appointment to full professor at the Harvard at age 28, the youngest in the school's history. Dershowitz went on to work on many of the most celebrated cases in the land, from appealing (successfully) Claus Von Bulow's conviction for the murder of his wife Sunny, to the O.J. Simpson trial, to defending Mike Tyson, Leona Helmsley, Patty Hearst, and countless others. He is currently part of the legal team advising Julian Assange.

A analysis of America's increasing reliance on preemptive actions, from profiling to preventive war, identifies the benefits and consequences of the nation's paradigm shift toward more preventive and proactive approaches to conflict, arguing that the seeds of such a shift were planted prior to the events of September 11. Reprint.

In The Case for Peace, Dershowitz identifies twelve geopolitical barriers to peace between Israel and Palestine-and explains how to move around them and push the process forward. From the division of Jerusalem and Israeli counterterrorism measures to the security fence and the Iranian nuclear threat, his analyses are clear-headed, well-argued, and sure to be controversial. According to Dershowitz, achieving a lasting peace will require more than tough-minded negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians. In academia, Europe, the UN, and the Arab world, Israel-bashing and anti-Semitism have reached new heights, despite the recent Israeli-Palestinian movement toward peace. Surveying this outpouring of vilification, Dershowitz deconstructs the smear tactics used by Israel-haters and shows how this kind of anti-Israel McCarthyism is aimed at scuttling any real chance of peace.

Personal and Passionate Reflections on the Land and Its People ""The Mediterranean landscape, the exuberance of the Israelis, the way politics is a matter of life and death there-all these things beguiled me.""-Erica Jong, author ""What does Israel mean to me? Courage. The Israelis have more courage in their pinky finger than I have in my whole life.""-Tovah Feldshuh, actress ""It is an unparalleled story of tenacity and determination, of courage and renewal. And it is ultimately a metaphor for the triumph and enduring hope over the temptation of despair.""-David Harris, Executive Director of the American Jewish Committee ""I have no desire to be like everyone else. Something in me wants the entry of the Jewish people into world politics to be judged by the highest conceivable measure. Indeed, that may be what is both so inspiring and confounding about the existence of Israel.""-Rabbi Lawrence Kushner? ""Israel isn't a symbol. Israel is the practical manifestation of hope, freedom, and self-determination.""-Larry King, television host

Personal and Passionate Reflections on the Land and Its People ""The Mediterranean landscape, the exuberance of the Israelis, the way politics is a matter of life and death there-all these things beguiled me.""-Erica Jong, author ""What does Israel mean to me? Courage. The Israelis have more courage in their pinky finger than I have in my whole life.""-Tovah Feldshuh, actress ""It is an unparalleled story of tenacity and determination, of courage and renewal. And it is ultimately a metaphor for the triumph and enduring hope over the temptation of despair.""-David Harris, Executive Director of the American Jewish Committee ""I have no desire to be like everyone else. Something in me wants the entry of the Jewish people into world politics to be judged by the highest conceivable measure. Indeed, that may be what is both so inspiring and confounding about the existence of Israel.""-Rabbi Lawrence Kushner? ""Israel isn't a symbol. Israel is the practical manifestation of hope, freedom, and self-determination.""-Larry King, television host

An attorney and best-selling author of The Case for Israel outlines a new if controversial path to peace in the Middle East that allows for two states--Israel and Palestine--and promotes an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and most of the West Bank, divides the city of Jerusalem, and calls for the Palestinians to take explicit steps to stamp out terrorism. 150,000 first printing.

Using the O. J. Simpson case as a backdrop, the famed defense attorney examines the American criminal justice system, critically analyzing its strengths and weaknesses. Reprint.

Explores the meaning of Jewishness in light of the increasing assimilation of America's Jews and suggests ways to preserve Jewish identity.