The Best Defense

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

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The author presents his most famous, and infamous, cases and clients, and in the process, takes a critical, informed look at a legal system that he regards as deeply corrupt.

“Anyone interested in the true merits of criminal law and very fine writing must read Alan Dershowitz’s book.” –Truman Capote

“[A] marvelous adventure story . . . exuberant, entertaining and enormously instructive.” –New York Review of Books

“An astounding legal memoir . . . absorbing, provocative.” –Boston Globe

“Recreates, far better than any Perry Mason novel, masterful cross-examinations. . . . It is high drama and good reading.”—Washington Post Book World
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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The author presents his most famous, and infamous, cases and clients, and in the process, takes a critical, informed look at a legal system that he regards as deeply corrupt.

“Anyone interested in the true merits of criminal law and very fine writing must read Alan Dershowitz’s book.” –Truman Capote

“[A] marvelous adventure story . . . exuberant, entertaining and enormously instructive.” –New York Review of Books

“An astounding legal memoir . . . absorbing, provocative.” –Boston Globe

“Recreates, far better than any Perry Mason novel, masterful cross-examinations. . . . It is high drama and good reading.”—Washington Post Book World

Author

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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