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The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau : Psychiatry and the Law in the Gilded Age
The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau Psychiatry and the Law in the Gilded Age
Author: Charles E. Rosenberg
In this brilliant study, Charles Rosenberg uses the celebrated trial of Charles Guiteau, who assassinated President Garfield in 1881, to explore insanity and criminal responsibility in the Gilded Age. Rosenberg masterfully reconstructs the courtroom battle waged by twenty-four expert witnesses who represented the two major schools of psychiatric...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226727172
ISBN-10: 0226727173
Publication Date: 10/15/1995
Pages: 308
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Paperback
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