Public Trials : Burke, Zola, Arendt, and the Politics of Lost Causes

In Public Trials, Lida Maxwell examines the problem of democratic failure - the failure of law and the people to assure justice - in the context of Edmund Burke's writings on the Hastings trial, Emile Zola's writings on the Dreyfus Affair, and Hannah Arendt's writings on the Eichmann trial.