Scott Christianson, Univ. of California, $27.50 (336p) ISBN 978-0-520-25562-3
Investigative journalist Christianson, author of the award-winning With Liberty for Some, charts the 75-year history of gas chamber execution as well as its intersection with eugenics, the Holocaust, and America’s ongoing capital punishment debate....
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Jon Lewis, Author, Scott Christianson, Author New York University Press $70 (390p) ISBN 978-0-8147-5142-8
Lewis's exhaustive history of censorship in American motion pictures starts off with a bang as he traces how the fledgling Motion Picture Association of America allied itself in 1947 with the House Committee on Un-American Activities to increase its
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Scott Christianson, Author New York University Press $35 (208p) ISBN 978-0-8147-1634-2
A chilling chronicle of what can happen when the criminal justice system goes awry, Christianson's volume documents 42 cases in which an innocent person was sentenced for a crime that she or he didn't commit. An investigative reporter who...
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Scott Christianson, Author Northeastern University Press $40 (352p) ISBN 978-1-55553-364-9
The key word in the subtitle is ""imprisonment,"" for although much of this book is a history of the U.S. prison system, it is also an examination of the whole notion of imprisonment, whether as a slave, as (according to the author) a member of a...
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