Word: nizer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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REFLECTIONS WITHOUT MIRRORS: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE MIND by Louis Nizer Doubleday; 469 pages...
...Howard Cosell of the legal game is Louis Nizer, 75, a distinguished New York lawyer whose reportage can make the driest case read like The Caine Mutiny Court Martial. Two previous books based on his own courtroom experiences, My Life in Court and The Jury Returns, were longtime bestsellers. Nizer represented Journalist Quentin Reynolds in a successful libel suit against Columnist Westbrook Pegler, and the account was exciting enough to be made into a Broadway play and a TV drama. The present volume suffers greatly by comparison. Part autobiography, part a philosophical guide to the law, it is mostly leftovers...
...fact, says Nizer, the Government's case was based on a suspicious but innocent transfer of funds between the man who did represent the Dominican Republic and Cassini. Any jury, he says, would have found for the defendant. Nizer pointed out the flimsiness of the Government's position to Jack Kennedy, who was shocked when Cassini's wife cracked under the strain and killed herself. Both Jack and Joe Kennedy urged mercy for Igor, but Bobby persisted. Finally, Nizer realized that Bobby had gone so far as to have the FBI tap his phone conversations with...
...Implosion Conspiracy, Nizer...
...Comfort (2) 3-Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution, Atkins (1) 4-Sybil, Schreiber(5) 5-Serpico, Maas (4) 6-I'm O.K., You're O.K., Horn's (6) 7-My Young Years, Rubinstein (8) 8-Weight Watchers Program Cookbook, Nidetch (9) 9-The Implosion Conspiracy, Nizer (7) 10-The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler, Payne