The ways of the hour
(2011)
Fiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Barnes & Noble, 2011
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781411443174 MWT15341103, 1411443179 15341103
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Published in 1850, this was Cooper's final novel-and America's first courtroom drama. When innocent Mary Monson is accused of murder, she refuses to clear her name, insisting on a jury trial. Cooper, who opposed the trial-by-jury system, mounts his soapbox to rail against the system's susceptibility to corruption, among other flaws
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