Theaters of Pardoning
(Part of the Corpus Juris: The Humanities in Politics and Law Series)
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From Gerald Ford's preemptive pardon of Richard Nixon and Donald Trump's claims that as president he could pardon himself to the posthumous royal pardon of Alan Turing, the power of the pardon has a powerful hold on the political and cultural imagination. In Theaters of Pardoning, Bernadette Meyler traces the roots of contemporary understandings of pardoning to tragicomic "theaters of pardoning" in the drama and politics of seventeenth-century...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1501739344
ISBN13:9781501739347
Release Date:September 2019
Publisher:Cornell University Press
Length:324 Pages
Weight:1.05 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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