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It was in the courtroom that I learned how, when you build a case, every detail matters and every bit counts. And I learned that you can never for a moment forget the big picture or the broad ambitions of justice....I came to genuinely understand how smart and decent all kinds of regular people are -- even at the worst moments in their lives. And I learned how our great system can often discount the hardships and genuine suffering of such people -- and how it can sometimes seem to forget their struggle almost completely.
Before he was elected United States Senator from North Carolina in 1998, John Edwards worked as a lawyer for twenty years. Raised in a small town by parents who worked in the local mills, Edwards worked in those mills himself -- and then went on to become one of America's most successful and respected attorneys. During that time, he built a national reputation representing people whose lives had been shattered by corporate recklessness and grievous medical negligence. Often those battles took aim at entrenched powers backed by the kind of financial interests that made the chance of victory seem slim -- at least in the eyes of many. Yet in landmark cases, Edwards helped people from all walks of life stand up for themselves against tremendous odds.
Four Trials provides an electrifying account of four of his cases as it tells the story of the courageous and unmistakably decent people Edwards was privileged to represent in times of tragedy, great loss, and often great joy. And in a deeply moving account, Four Trials also speaks of the tragedies and joys that Senator Edwards has known in his own life -- and how today life and justice are more precious to him than ever.
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A Portrayal of an Honest Man .......2007-02-23
Four Trials is an excellent read by John Edwards relaying the integrity of the man. I enjoyed reading his candor about his life, (including his life history), his education, his entry and work as an attorney and the profile of several important cases which he handled.
I was impressed by Edwards' integrity and the sincerity with which he represented his clients as portrayed in this book. There were some places in the book where, I felt, that Edwards uses the book as a means to somewhat overexplain parts of his life.
Overall, this is a good book to gain a sense of what the 2004 Democratic Vice Presidential candidate / 2008 Presidential candidate is really all about. I recommend this book to a nyone who wants to increase their knowledge of the breadth of this man.
Insprirational.......2007-02-13
John Edwards ia an amazing individual. He really explains why the American system of justice is the best in the world as he does so ina way where the reader understands better how civil disputes are litigated and resolved.
An Unconventional Campaign Biography.......2005-10-25
Four Trials is an unconventional campaign biography from 2004 presidential and, later, vice-presidential candidate, North Carolina Senator John Edwards. Edwards reveals his philosophical approach to life and politics through four of the cases he handled as a trial attorney, each at a different stage of his life and career.
For a campaign biography, Four Trials barely discusses nuts and bolts politics at all. Of course, most conservatives are not fond of trial attorneys, but I can't imagine anyone cheering against Edwards' clients in these particular cases. These folks were obviously wronged.
It is clear that Edwards longs to be a champion for the little guy, a by-product of his humble, blue collar upbringing. With his trademark sunny disposition, boundless optimism, and ferocious drive, Edwards was determined to right these horrible wrongs within the confines of the judicial system. It sounds idealistic, but Edwards is idealistic. And his concern for his clients feels genuine.
This isn't entirely a feel good book, however. Edwards candidly reveals several moments of personal doubt where he wondered if he was capable of doing the job or if he was promising his clients more than he could deliver. And, of course, there's the story of the shocking and sudden loss of his oldest son, Wade. Edwards explains how he dealt with the pain of the loss by pouring more energy into his work and into public service. Judging by his father's words, it is apparent that Wade Edwards was someone truly special.
It may have been released as a campaign biography and the 2004 campaign may be long gone, but Four Trials is still emotionally and intellectually compelling. Whatever your personal political leanings may be, Four Trials is just a great read.
The Four Trials by John Edwards.......2005-09-11
This book was one that I simply could not put down until it was completed. I read it cover to cover in one day. Senator Edwards appears to share from the heart about his family life as a child, his marriage to Elizabeth, raising a family, and sadly the loss of his son, Wade, in a tragic car accident. He presents four trials, 2 medical malpractice, one wrongful death, and one product negligence. He appears to truly care about his clients and seems to get to know them. Some would say he appears to be "too good to be true", I am from the south and I see a lot of people that share his caring attitude, so he seems real to me. A must read if you enjoy legal drama, especially if you enjoy "true stories". He leaves out Senate information and never discusses an interest in the presidency, this book focuses entirely on the four trials with bits of his biographical information scattered among it. A non-fiction book that reads as easily as the best drama. Enjoy!
Four Trials.......2005-09-11
In Four Trials, John Edwards, presents four compelling cases of ordinary people with whom the reader can identify. Each story is a moving account of individuals who were terribly wronged who sought help through the justice system. Throughout the book Mr. Edwards interweaves his life stories and his feelings with the accounts of each trial, revealing his strong character and good heart. One statement that remains in this reader's mind is the opening one "I trust you". Trust is what needs to be put back into both our judicial system and our government.
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Among the most important and influential philosophical works in Western thought: Euthyphro, exploring the concepts and aims of piety and religion; Apology, a defense of the integrity of Socrates' teachings; Crito, exploring Socrates' refusal to flee his death sentence; and Phaedo, in which Socrates embraces death and discusses the immortality of the soul.
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" The unexamined life is not worth living".......2007-05-07
The four dialogues collected in this volume tell the story of the trial and death of Socrates. The "Euthrypo" is a philosophical dialogue on the subject of piety and holiness, set against the background of Socrates' having been accused of impiety towards the gods. The 'Apology' contains Socrates largely monologic defense of his own actions. In this he defends his own devotion to truth, to seeking out the way of true Wisdom. His well- known claim is not that he is wise, but rather that whatever wisdom he has comes in knowing he and others are not wise. Socrates role as gadfly, as one who questions conventional truths is here highlighted. In the 'Crito' Socrates refuses the pleas of his friends, and shows himself to be a dutiful citizen of the state by refusing to illegally escape, run away from the death- sentence. In the 'Phaedo' Socrates nobly choses to accept the verdict of Death , and indicates that his concern is more with his own immortal soul than with the evanescent life in this world.
The Four Dialogues together are central to Plato's thought, and constitute one of the central stories of Western Philosophy.
'Philosophy' as Socrates practices it is an unending searching for the truth, an unending process of questioning and dialoguing , undermining one's own assumptions in the process. It is an exposing of the folly and error which is at the heart of most conventional opinion.
In these 'Dialogues' Plato creates the figure of Socrates as first great hero of Western Philosophy. And this though Plato's own thought will have a dimension of certainty and discovery of the Absolute Ideal which aims to be go beyond Socratic activity and dialogue.
These 'Dialogues' are not simply a central work of Western thought, but also a powerful work of Literature. They portray a remarkably , courageous figure, one who stands for the 'truth' and for his own moral integrity despite the entreaties and pressures of the mass of his countrymen. Socrates ia also the great martyr of truth, and as this sets the pattern for a whole series of 'heroes' of thought who defy Authority to present the Truth as they understand it.
With all this there are questions to be raised about Socrates value- system, wisdom and general morality. He has often been faulted for neglecting not only the shrewish wife Xantippe, but his three sons, for in short holding responsibility to family as secondary value. His 'questioning - of- everything' attitude is of course one which comes most naturally to adolescence and the young people he taught, but is problematic for those adult Athenians who truly had to be responsible for running Athenian democracy under difficult times.
This neat, small Dover Edition presents a classic piece of philosophical Literature in an attractive and inexpensive popular non- scholarly edition.
A Great Translation.......2007-03-11
This translation by Benjamin Jowett, a great translator of Plato's works, is the one you want to get. There are other translations that are simpler and more colloquial, but none more elegant and beautiful than Jowett. This translation was finished in the 19th century; it is the most famous of all Plato translations, although there are numerous other translations available today. (You will be able to find critics that love and hate each translator, so it is up to you to get the one that you think is most true and, if you are like me, most beautiful.) Here is a translation comparison of the same lines of a few different translations so you can see the difference:
(From the "Apology")
Tredennick:
"Well, now it is time to be off, I to die and you to live; but which is the happier prospect is unknown to anyone but God."
Jowett:
"The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways--I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows."
Rouse:
"And now it is time to go, I to die, and you to live; but which of us goes to a better thing is unknown to all but God."
To my ear, the Jowett sounds the sweetest. Just so you know, the Jowett translation is a public domain text (finished in the late 19th century) that you can find on the internet if you don't want to buy it; but it only costs pennies, so go ahead and buy the book so you can make your notes in the margins...and also so you don't have to stare at a computer screen for hours.
Some links to other versions that feature the Jowett translation:
Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo (Great Books in Philosophy)
Six Great Dialogues: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium, The Republic (Thrift Edition)
Plato and Socrates and the Immortality of the Soul........2004-09-13
This edition of _The Trial and Death of Socrates_ contains Plato's four famous dialogues between Socrates and his friends and detractors before the noteworthy philosopher was condemned to death by the Athenian tribunal in ancient Greece. I find this topic of interest because of the close relationship between Platonic thought and early Christian philosophy during the period of roughly 250-750 A.D. when the fundamentals of Christian doctrine were formed. It is clear from a reading of this series of texts why Plato, although a pagan preceding Christ for several hundred years, was very popular among Christian prelates, monks, polemicists, theologians and philosophers. The texts make somewhat awkward reading because they are presented in the forms of dialogue between Socrates and his friends and detractors and thus Plato does not have to express unequivocally what his own opinions are regarding the debates. The first text discussed in this volume is entitled "Euthyphro" and discusses the nature of piety. Here Plato has Socrates question many of the concepts associated with the polytheistic worship and piety of ancient Athens. Socrates' famous "Apology" is a treatise against the accusations of the courts of Athens. Socrates argues for the fact that only God is ultimately the source of wisdom and in all his interactions with fellow poets, artists, philosophers, statesmen, etc., he has not found true wisdom, at least not any wisdom that he himself does not already possess. In "Crito" Socrates debates with those among his followers who entreat him to flee Athens and take up refuge in a safer city. "Phaedo" contains the account of Socrates' last dialogue and concludes with Socrates' death by consuming hemlock poison as ordered by the Athenian court. Socrates explains that he does not fear death because the physical things of this world are impermanent and only the soul is ultimately immortal. Death is in fact an improvement in man's condition and he advocates a type of otherworldly asceticism (disdaining external appearances, food, clothing and human love) as the true path for the philosopher who wants to understand and contemplate the nature of reality in a pure fashion. The body dies and the soul is immortal and therefore the most important thing is to attend to the metaphysical realities while in this life. Socrates argues, among other things, that the soul is pre-existent of the body, a concept which was taken up later by the Christian philosopher Origen and later condemned as heresy. He also believes in a concept of the afterlife where the soul is either punished for wrongdoing or rewarded for good. Some souls go through a process of purification before they can advance, similar to the Roman Catholic doctrine of Purgatory. _The Trial and Death of Socrates_ is an excellent read about an important figure in the history of religion and philosophy, especially as it shows the mindset of one who was willing to die for his beliefs (martyrdom). Not all of Plato and Socrates ideas were adopted by the Church but despite certain discrepancies they were nonetheless influential.
The death of a man of honour.......2004-01-08
The Greek philosopher Socrates is the the acknowledged Founding Father of Philosophy. Born in Athens circa 470 BC, in the time of its apogee, Socrates lived a poor life, not paying any tribute to the so-called frivolities and luxuries of life, thus irritating his many foes, which took monetary advantage of their philosophical practice. The great Socrates had Plato as his most dedicated disciple, among others, who set himself to write down all Socratic discourses, thus preserving to posterity the very special way of thinking Socrates had, known as "maieuthics". Socrates did not leave to posterity any written document of his handwriting, and that is why that the dedication Plato had to him was important to us. It is something like the work of a match who kindles a very beautiful candle.
Socrates was the son of a midwife and a sculptor and his very particular philosophical method was performed by means of very well-formulated questions, that showed that the answers to the questions asked were already there at the very first time, and only had to be delivered out of the inner self by means of philosophical questioning, something akin to the help a mid-wife does to a pregnant woman in her labours prior before the baby is born.
In my opinion, the most important part of this small booklet is the Apology of Socrates, where the wisest of all men shows to the tribunal that the only superiority he had over his accusers was that he did not pretend to know anything at all, while his accusers boasted a knowledge they did not have. The ideals formulated or used by Socrates ("Know thyself") were later adopted by the Christian religion and evidenced a man in a inner struggle with his internal "daemon", a word which originally had quite another meaning than the modern one, and showed a man with a great coherence in life and, as Nietzche said, most important, a coherence in the face of death, cause to death he was sentenced by his accusers, who were, as predicted by Socrates, to be ruined after his death.
Plato is the apparent heir of the socratic tradition and in this small opus pays his tributes to the master of his youth.
I hope you enjoy the book as much as I did.
The Search For Truth.......2003-11-26
This book was more than just a reading assignment for AP English class. In the end it turned out to be something I enjoyed reading. I liked how Socrates questioned people until he found the answer he was looking for, or the truth. He was willing to die for something he strongly believed in and I admire that in a person. The book would have been a lot better had Socrates been able to write some of the information down himself, but thanks to Plato, we get to learn about the life of a great man.
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A+.......2007-06-08
This will remain, in my opinoin, one of the best pieces of literature ever written.
The Crucible-a moving story.......2007-01-31
I have recently read 'The Crucible' by Arthur Miller. I thoroughly enjoyed it and highly recommend it to everyone. This was a moving and rather depressing story of the Salem witch trials but I loved it. Abigail is a young girl who, with other girls in the town, claims to be tortured by spectors (spirits) in the village of Salem, but really just makes these accusations up. But these aren't just friendly accusattions. If you are accused of being a witch you can confess and "come back to God" and be fogiven, or you can deny the accusation all together and be hanged.
This is an intense story of love, courage, and tragedy and how the peculiar town of Salem reacts to all of these.If you can handle this great tear-jerker, then I highly recommend it.
Good Play.......2007-01-12
A quick read considering it being a play, the Crucible offers some insight into the victims and those involved in the Salem Witch Trials.
Since it was a play, Miller's style did not amaze me in anyway, but i enjoyed the play aspect in this case, since it was something different from the typical read. Instead of the common vivid descriptions or the over the head type of figurative language, Miller uses subtle detail to create the same effect, it is hard to explain just how, but each minor detail seems to add so much to the picture projected in my mind, and it really seemed as if a play was held before me.
I could see everything--the fear in the people's eyes, the tension between every conversation. There may not have been a lot of words, but I felt that even the single "no.. no.. " told a lot.
Most shocking was the inhumane--yet ironically humanly--moral depictions of the characters. I was surprised with their extremely careful eye for reputation and name--to the point of setting up innocent friends and family to the sacrificial alter to calm the fearing people. So much for honestly, so much for loyalty. The people were monsters when it came to saving themselves at the cost of anybody. Though disgusted as I was with these characters, I was more a little shaken myself. Looking now to the type of society around me, I could envision another enactment of the witch trials. Yes, it was inhumane; yes, it could have been avoided. BUT, I find that many of the characters' flawed traits still exist in today's society. We see people hiding secrets, hurting others, telling lies, to save their own name. We see people dressing up with hope of impressing--or sometimes, deceiving--others. Society today still has its hand tightly gripped on reputation, and it doesn't seem as if it is letting go soon.
Rather than the typical history lesson, The Crucible is a drama that tells a lot. Love triangles, back stabbing, and affairs flood the story, and characters with every aspect revealed hold it up. The Crucible was meant to depict the mind settings and the circumstances of the people involved in the Salem Witch Trials--and it did just that.
Salem and McCarthy's Joint Witch Hunt.......2007-01-12
McCarthy's Red Scare as opposed to the Salem Witch Trials. Arthur Miller's The Crucible takes an interesting as he takes a historiccal tragedy and compares it to one of the hot botton issues of his time during the 1950s. As Miller describes the chaos and ignorance during the late 1600s in Salem, Massachusetts, Miller also successfully compares the mania of a Puritan-dominated era to a supposedly more progressive era of the 1950s, a time where the Red Scare was at its height. His brilliant commentary in between the scenes of the Salem Witch Trial remind the reader how our fears of the unknown time and time again result in our own ignorance and weakness as a society. It's fascinating how the language of these two time period are so different, old english vs. contemporary, yet these tragedies are joined by one main thing. The ignorance, fear, and hatred manipulated into both societies is what threatens their own foundations. Miller's style and organization of the plot is intriguing as it makes events that occured during the Salem Witch Trials parallel with what went on during the Red Scare. This is an effective political drama that urges the reader to step away from fear and focus on understanding.
The power of the mob.......2007-01-08
The Crucible is like a historical play with a love triangle hiding a politically driven allegory attacking the behavior of Americans during the late 1940s-1850s.
One of the many plays schools across the world students are required to study, The Crucible is one of the most interesting out of all. The easiest way to contrast The Crucible in relation to other play is with Shakespeare's plays, often hailed as the best tragedies of all time. The Crucible is much easier to read than Shakespeare's plays. Shakespeare's plays need to be translated before any analysis is able to happen; once understood, the plot of his plays and his very hidden meanings are intriguing. But the problem is that it takes too long and is too agonizing to try and understand. Miller's play is relatively simple and direct. He makes it so easy to appreciate his work. Moreover, Miller's ability to recreate the atmosphere during such times of mob rule makes the reader feel the frenzy and hysteria of mob rule. There are no periods of boredom between the action.
Before reading this book, brush up on your knowledge of the McCarthyism era. Miller uses the backdrop of the Massachusetts in 1692 to compare the distinct similarities between the Salem Witch Trials and the Second Red Scare, exposing the evil capabilities of man when cornered. The Crucible is a great play with or without the knowledge of Miller's allegory to McCarthyism. If you do remember McCarthyism before reading Miller's play, The Crucible becomes a two in one deal - both a great play and re-evaluation of our actions. The additional knowledge enriches your understanding of this play and enriches Miller's message.
It's just so sad to see how easy it is for us to lose all sense of logic and rationale when they are most needed and how weak we become from fear.
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The Trial: Four Thousand Years of Courtroom Drama
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For as long as accuser and accused have faced each other in public, criminal trials have been establishing far more than who did what to whom–and in this fascinating book, Sadakat Kadri surveys four thousand years of courtroom drama.
A brilliantly engaging writer, Kadri journeys from the silence of ancient Egypt’s Hall of the Dead to the clamor of twenty-first-century Hollywood to show how emotion and fear have inspired Western notions of justice–and the extent to which they still riddle its trials today. He explains, for example, how the jury emerged in medieval England from trials by fire and water, in which validations of vengeance were presumed to be divinely supervised, and how delusions identical to those that once sent witches to the stake were revived as accusations of Satanic child abuse during the 1980s.
Lifting the lid on a particularly bizarre niche of legal history, Kadri tells how European lawyers once prosecuted animals, objects, and corpses–and argues that the same instinctive urge to punish is still apparent when a child or mentally ill defendant is accused of sufficiently heinous crimes.
But Kadri’s history is about aspiration as well as ignorance. He shows how principles such as the right to silence and the right to confront witnesses, hallmarks of due process guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, were derived from the Bible by twelfth-century monks. He tells of show trials from Tudor England to Stalin’s Soviet Union, but contends that “no-trials,” in Guantánamo Bay and elsewhere, are just as repugnant to Western traditions of justice and fairness. With governments everywhere eroding legal protections in the name of an indefinite war on terror, Kadri’s analysis could hardly be timelier.
At once encyclopedic and entertaining, comprehensive and colorful,
The Trial rewards curiosity and an appreciation of the absurd but tackles as well questions that are profound. Who has the right to judge, and why? What did past civilizations hope to achieve through scapegoats and sacrifices–and to what extent are defendants still made to bear the sins of society at large? Kadri addresses such themes through scores of meticulously researched stories, all told with the verve and wit that won him one of Britain’s most prestigious travel-writing awards–and in doing so, he has created a masterpiece of popular history.
From the Hardcover edition.
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The Definitive Galactus Story.......2002-12-30
Despite it's misleading moniker (It's actually Reed Richards who is on trial.), The Trial of Galactus does a decent job of truncating Writer/Artist John Byrne's epic Galactus story that ran (sporadically) from Fantastic Four #'s 242-262.
The book starts out with what might just be THE Galactus story: After a devastating battle against the big G's Herald, Terrax the Tamer, The FF is faced with a momentous decision: Let the weakened Galactus perish, or try to save him. FF leader Reed Richards, along with Dr. Strange, Iron Man, Thor, and a host of others, restore the planet-eater to his former vim & vigor, and off he goes to destroy the Skrull Throneworld. The races that have been victimized by Galactus in the past assemble, and put the abducted Reed Richards on trial; Since he saw fit to save Galactus' life, he will be held accountable for Galactus' atrocities. Richards' defense is that Galactus fulfills a Celestial purpose, and we have no right to judge him; Don't we all kill to eat? Well, yeah. But I personally think he should just mind his own bees-wax and let Galactus croak. Does Richards' have the right to condemn Billions of sentient being to death, just to salve his own conscience..?
Byrne has re-done some of the pages in the collection to make the story flow better, and it works, to an extent. There are refrences to other adventures that seem jarring, considering this is all supposed to be one seamless story. Why redo anything if there are still going to be captions pointing out things that aren't in the book? Especially that Sub-Mariner refrence...
Byrne not only delivers THE Galactus story in these pages, but also throws in one of the best Dr. Doom arcs ever, as Doom attempts to imbue the now-powerless Terrax, or should that be Tyros, with the power cosmic, and use him to kill the FF. In one line of Dialogue ("I never thought Doom would strike a woman! KILL one, yes, but never strike one...") Byrne perfectly encapsulates Doom's mania and strange ethical code better than I've ever seen it done.
The problem came at the end......The climax of the trial sees one of the most LITERAL Deus ex Machina examples EVER, and I actually had to check the book's binding to make sure pages weren't stuck together or missing. No such luck. The climax is so abrupt and forced that I really felt cheated. Up until then, though, The Trial of Galactus is The Fantastic Four at it's best. The book also contains Byrne's mildly amusing Fantastic Four vs. Superman spoof from Marvel's "What The?!?" book.
Very good, right up until the part where...........2001-11-27
....John Byrne injects *himself* into the actual storyline. The climax has creator Byrne actually drawing himself -- having conversations w/the FF, and even traveling with them to the trial of Reed Richards -- who's on trial for his saving of Galactus back when the FF and Avengers had him at Death's door. This TPB collects this generous act by Richards, as well as the death and rebirth of Terrax the Tamer, his battle against Dr. Doom and the Silver Surfer, and the abduction and trial of Richards, for whom Galactus and Eternity themselves testify.
The first family of Marvel!.......1998-11-17
Well, what can be said about the fabulous Fnatastic Four? I love them to the highest degree. I was in the second grade when this story arc fisrt appeared on the news stand. I was totally fascinated by it when I saw the cover. The Fantastic Four, since their inception, have dealt with science fiction. I love that trait about the book. The story revolves around the ethical question of "Must one destroy another if he destroys others?" The story is fast-paced and at times very poignant. It is one of the best stories that came out of the 80's in mainstream comics. John Byrne write and illustrates a wonderful work. The Trial of Galactus is a story that shows the high marks in the pictorial literature called comics. I hope you enjoy every panel.
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