Theaters of pardoning
Auteur :
Meyler, Bernadette
Éditeur :
Cornell University Press
ISBN :
9781501739347
Date de publication :
15 sept. 2019
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 2,2 cm
Poids :
907 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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...