Alan Dershowitz Reveals Startling Facts About Some Of Our Most Famous Trials

“Trials affect American history, and American history affects the trials.”

So says one of America’s best known litigators, famed attorney and law professor Alan Dershowitz.

Over a decades-long legal career Dershowitz has represented clients ranging from Mike Tyson and Leona Helmsley to O.J. Simpson, Donald Trump, and Jeffrey Epstein.

Along the way Dershowitz picked up a unique avocation: reading transcripts. And not just from the cases he was working on.

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Dershowitz began reading transcripts of some of America’s most famous – or infamous – trials, from the Salem witch trials and Lizzie Borden to the Scopes monkey trial, and the Rosenbergs.

In 2004 Dershowitz wrote a book about many of those trials, based on nuggets of previously-overlooked material he found deep in those transcripts. He called his book America on Trial, and that spring he and I talked about it when he went on a book tour.

So here now, from 2004, Alan Dershowitz.

Alan Dershowitz is 86. He lives in New York and Florida.

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