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    The Best Defense

    The Courtroom Confrontations of America's Most Outspoken Lawyer of Last Resort--the Lawyer Who Won the Claus von Bulow Appeal

    Author Alan Dershowitz
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    $22.00 US
    Knopf | Vintage
    5.16"W x 7.95"H x 1.08"D   | 17 oz | 24 per carton
    On sale May 12, 1983 | 464 Pages | 9780394713809
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    "Anyone interested in the true merits of criminal law and very fine writing must read Alan Dershowitz's book." --Truman Capote

    In this tell-all legal memoir, Alan Dershowitz describes his most famous, and infamous, cases and clients. In the process, takes a critical, informed look at a legal system that he regards as deeply corrupt.
    Alan Dershowitz is one of the most famous and celebrated lawyers in America. He is the youngest full professor in school history at Harvard, where he is now the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law. The author of numerous bestselling books, from Chutzpah to The Best Defense to In Defense of Israel to Reversal of Fortune, Dershowitz has advised and defended many of the most famous legal cases of the past fifty years. View titles by Alan Dershowitz

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    "Anyone interested in the true merits of criminal law and very fine writing must read Alan Dershowitz's book." --Truman Capote

    In this tell-all legal memoir, Alan Dershowitz describes his most famous, and infamous, cases and clients. In the process, takes a critical, informed look at a legal system that he regards as deeply corrupt.

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    Alan Dershowitz is one of the most famous and celebrated lawyers in America. He is the youngest full professor in school history at Harvard, where he is now the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law. The author of numerous bestselling books, from Chutzpah to The Best Defense to In Defense of Israel to Reversal of Fortune, Dershowitz has advised and defended many of the most famous legal cases of the past fifty years. View titles by Alan Dershowitz

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