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Stutterstep is many things. It is a love story, a story of self-discovery, a story about friendship. Its central characters are a dreamer living in the past and a realist firmly ensconced in the here and now. It takes place in two vastly different settings, the Arizona desert and the low-lying delta of New Orleans. In Stutterstep, the reader meets daydreamer Elias. An idealist seeking his destiny, he is hell-bent on self-discovery but clueless...

As Chiasson and his contributors illustrate, trials are media events that can have long-reaching significance. They can, and have, changed the way people think, how institutions function, and have shaped public opinions. While this collection on ten trials is about withcraft, slavery, religion, and radicalism, it is, in many ways, the story of America.

Perhaps no drama catches the interest of the American public more than a spectacular trial. Even though the reporting of a crime may quickly diminish in news value, the trial lingers while drama builds. Although this has become seemingly more pronounced in recent years with the popularity of televised trials, public interest in criminal trials was just as high in 1735 when John Peter Zenger defended his right to free speech, or in 1893 when Li...