The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau: Psychiatry and the Law in the Gilded Age

by Charles E. Rosenberg

Book Overview

In this brilliant study, Charles Rosenberg uses the celebrated trial of Charles Guiteau, who assassinated President Garfield in 1881, to explore insanity and criminal responsibility in the Gilded Age. Rosenberg masterfully reconstructs the courtroom battle waged by twenty-four expert witnesses who represented the two major schools of psychiatric thought of the generation immediately preceding Freud.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226727173
• ISBN13: 9780226727172
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"