Word: lukases
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Tony Lukas covered the Chicago trial for five months for the New York Times and has now turned out what he calls "A short little book" (107 pages), The Barnyard Epithet and Other Obscenities: Notes on the Chicago Conspiracy Trial. It's a book of anecdotes, incidents, and bits and...
In contrast to the Jason Epstein book or Tom Hayden's account, Lukas shows that this spectacular extravaganza need not in any sense be construed as a trial. It was a complex network of conflicts, dominated by personalities and fed by all of those issues which have been rightly injected...
There were the obvious conflicts between Judge Hoffman and Bobby Seale (racism), Hoffman and the other seven defendants (radicalism), Hoffman and the defense attorneys (provincialism), the legalists and the symbolists, the Yippie wing of the defendants and the Tom Hayden revolutionary wing, and of course the prosecution and the defense...
ONE MIGHT take Lukas' disclaimer that this is just a short little book as an excuse for not telling the whole story of the Chicago conspiracy trial. He calls it a contribution, but it is much more substantive. The tales of Hoffman's tenure on the bench, the glimpses of...
New York Times reporters are the closest thing America has to professional spectators, and one suspects sometimes that the paper's guidelines for news dictates that the more controversial the subject, the more dispassionate, detached, and altogether impeccably facile the coverage must be. The Barnyard Epithet displays traces of this...