Alan M. Dershowitz, Grand Central, $26.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-446-57673-4
At the start of Dershowitz's earnest third novel (after 2000's Just Revenge) featuring celebrity lawyer Abe Ringel, whose quirky, sometimes quixotic career resembles the author's own, Abe's 26-year-old daughter, Emma, goes to Israel despite Abe's...
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Alan M. Dershowitz. Schocken/Nextbook, $26 (208p) ISBN 978-0-8052-4293-5
In this fresh commentary, Dershowitz compares the words and actions of the biblical Abraham to the various historical archetypes of the Jewish lawyer. He asserts that Abraham may be seen as the "first Jewish lawyer," exercising the legal roles of...
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Alan Dershowitz. Crown, $28 (528p) ISBN 978-0-307-71927-0
Dershowitz, Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard, is one of the most high-profile lawyers in America, known for his work on newsworthy criminal cases, including the defense of Claus von Bülow, who was accused of killing his socialite wife....
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Alan M. Dershowitz, Author McGraw-Hill/Contemporary $19.95 (332p) ISBN 978-0-8092-4616-8
In this collection of essays drawn from his weekly syndicated columns, Harvard Law School professor Dershowitz (The Best Defense, etc.), reviews the present state of the judicial system from Supreme Court to the local police station and discusses...
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Alan M. Dershowitz, Author Random House (NY) $19.95 (276p) ISBN 978-0-394-53903-4
Convicted of trying to kill his wealthy wife Martha (Sunny), Claus von Bulow hired the author, a Harvard law professor, to spearhead his appeal for a new trial in Rhode Island, scene of the alleged crime. Dershowitz's detailed coverage includes his...
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Alan M. Dershowitz, Author Little Brown and Company $22.95 (341p) ISBN 978-0-316-18135-8
More and more criminal defendants are claiming a history of abuse to avoid accountability for their behavior. Harvard Law School professor Dershowitz (Chutzpah) views battered wife syndrome, ``black rage,'' the ``crime of passion'' mitigation,...
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Alan M. Dershowitz, Author Pharos Books $22.95 (398p) ISBN 978-0-88687-701-9
In his syndicated newspaper column, Harvard Law School professor Dershowitz ( Chutzpah ) comments on contemporary legal and public policy issues. The self-described ``civil libertarian''p. xiii is himself often newsworthy as the attorney for...
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Alan M. Dershowitz, Author W. W. Norton & Company $24.95 (348p) ISBN 978-0-393-06012-6
Children of deposed kings, sovereign nation states, terrorist organizations, alleged witches-all have been targets, at some point in history, of preemptive action. Whether such action was justified whether the results were as intended and whether...
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Alan M. Dershowitz, Author John Wiley & Sons $22.95 (246p) ISBN 978-0-471-74317-0
While holding out hope for a settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli dispute, this lively polemic carries on the fierce war of words over the conflict. Harvard Law professor Dershowitz, author of The Case For Israel, feels that, with Arafat's death...
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Alan M. Dershowitz, Author Warner Books $28 (304p) ISBN 978-0-446-52479-7
A Harvard Law School faculty member since 1964, Dershowitz is noted for representing controversial and unpopular clients. In addition to tomes on the law and two novels, he wrote a 1987 book prescribing a remedy to save American Jews (The Vanishing...
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Alan M. Dershowitz, Author Warner Books $28 (336p) ISBN 978-0-446-51983-0
Who determines justice? In this thought-provoking and ambitious novel, lawyer and Harvard professor Dershowitz creates a decide-for-yourself scenario that is both chilling and life affirming. Elderly scholar Max Menuchen is a Holocaust survivor who...
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Alan M. Dershowitz, Author Little Brown and Company $30 (416p) ISBN 978-0-316-18133-4
In a provocative call to action, Dershowitz argues that American Jewry is in danger of extinction by the middle of the next century, because of skyrocketing rates of intermarriage and assimilation, combined with low birth rates. In order to survive,
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Alan M. Dershowitz, Author Back Bay Books $19.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-316-18102-0
Harvard Law professor and high-profile lawyer Dershowitz's collection of essays concerns the trend of criminal defendants claiming to be victims as a way of avoiding responsibility for their actions. (Sept.)
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Alan M. Dershowitz, Author Touchstone Books $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-671-76089-2
Gadfly civil libertarian Dershowitz pens a perspicacious, anecdotal account of the responsibilities and difficulties associated with Jewishness today. In hardcover, this BOMC alternate spent 22 weeks on PW 's bestseller list and attained the number-o
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Alan M. Dershowitz, Author . Oxford Univ. $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-19-514827-5
Harvard Law's Dershowitz (Reasonable Doubt, etc.) takes on the now famous, or infamous, Supreme Court decision Bush v. Gore, which ended the recount of votes in Florida and in effect handed the election to Bush. This decision, writes Dershowitz,
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Alan M. Dershowitz, Author Simon & Schuster $19.5 (8p) ISBN 978-0-684-83021-6
Despite the hoopla surrounding the Simpson trial book deals, this is a solid piece of reflection and argument by Dershowitz (Reversal of Fortune), who was chosen to prepare the appeal had Simpson been convicted. Dershowitz believes that Simpson...
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Alan M. Dershowitz, Author Little, Brown and Company Inc $22.95 (378p) ISBN 978-0-316-18137-2
If a trifle long-winded, Dershowitz's ( Reversal of Fortune ) audacious, perspicacious, anecdotal, carefully documented book should increase his following among Jewish and non-Jewish readers alike. The gadfly civil libertarian here challenges his...
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Alan M. Dershowitz, Author . Wiley $25.95 (293p) ISBN 978-0-470-37992-9
The explicit intent of this confrontational book is to intellectually engage prominent “enemies of Israel” in “the open marketplace of ideas.” Harvard law professor Dershowitz (The Case for Israel
) begins with a vehement...
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Alan M. Dershowitz, Author . Oxford Univ. $19.95 (212p) ISBN 978-0-19-530779-5
The prolific and opinionated Dershowitz (Rights from Wrongs
), public personality and Harvard law professor, is provocative and erudite in this treatise on the Fifth Amendment right to remain silent, which in his view may become a victim of the war...
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Alan M. Dershowitz, Author . Wiley $25.95 (244p) ISBN 978-0-470-16711-3
Contemplating whether the government could censor imams whose preaching might incite terrorism, Harvard law professor Dershowitz (Blasphemy
) wondered what Thomas Jefferson would say about “where to draw the appropriate line, between dangerous
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Alan M. Dershowitz, Author . Basic $24 (272p) ISBN 978-0-465-01713-3
The double meaning in Dershowitz's title indicates just one of the insightful thoughts that mark the well-known Harvard law professor's latest work. In tracing the evolution of rights, he argues forcefully against any concept of natural...
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Alan M. Dershowitz, Author . Warner $30 (608p) ISBN 978-0-446-52058-4
Harvard law professor Dershowitz discusses several dozen cases that he believes provide insight into the transformation of the country and its legal system from the colonial period to the present. As the broad historical sweep of the project...
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Alan M. Dershowitz, Author . Wiley $19.95 (264p) ISBN 978-0-471-46502-7
Noting that he has been working on versions of these arguments since 1967, famed Harvard law professor Dershowitz offers "a proactive defense of Israel," a kind of amicus brief to "the court of public opinion." Not least among the...
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Alan M. Dershowitz, Author . Wiley $19.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-471-26482-8
These are dire times for the Declaration of Independence, Dershowitz believes. The religious right has hijacked the document for its own wily purposes, holding that phrases such as "Nature's God," "Creator" and "Divine...
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Alan M. Dershowitz, Author . Yale Univ. $24.95 (271p) ISBN 978-0-300-09766-5
Against the backdrop of the U.S.-led war on terrorism, the renowned criminal defense and civil liberties attorney argues forcefully that the attacks of September 11 were largely of our own doing—the international community, Dershowitz says,...
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Alan M. Dershowitz, Author . Little, Brown $26.95 (560p) ISBN 978-0-316-18141-9
Human rights come from human wrongs, argues famed criminal and civil rights lawyer Dershowitz; only by looking closely at past in
justice we can construct a theory and law that attempts a more perfect justice. This collection of 55 short pieces (some
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Alan M. Dershowitz, Author . Basic $22 (206p) ISBN 978-0-465-01631-0
Dershowitz helps inaugurate a new series called the Art of Mentoring with this volume of advice and reflection on practicing law. Several unifying themes run throughout, most prominently the ethical traps—for defense attorneys, prosecutors...
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