Nothing but the Truth : : Why Trial Lawyers Don't, Can't, and Shouldn't Have to Tell the Whole Truth / / Steven Lubet.
Lubet's Nothing But The Truth presents a novel and engaging analysis of the role of storytelling in trial advocacy. The best lawyers are storytellers, he explains, who take the raw and disjointed observations of witnesses and transform them into coherent and persuasive narratives. Critics of th...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2001] ©2001 |
| Year of Publication: | 2001 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Critical America ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Storytelling Lawyers
- Chapter one. Biff and Me: Stories That Are Truer Than True
- Chapter two. Edgardo Mortara: Forbidden Truths
- Chapter three. John Brown: Political Truth and Consequences
- Chapter four. Wyatt Earp: Truth and Context
- Chapter five. Liberty Valance Truth or Justice
- Chapter six. Atticus Finch: Race, Class, Gender, and Truth
- Chapter seven. Sheila McGough The Impossibility of the Whole Truth
- Index
- About the Author