It offers a portable well-researched resource highlighting many individuals who contributed to Rochester’s rich past. These historic figures are but two of the 350,000 people who permanently rest in America’s first municipal Victorian cemetery, which was dedicated in 1836.Ī perfect companion to navigate the cemetery’s 193 acres is this expanded and updated field guide. Readers will be as anxious as the waiting newspaper reporters in 1915 to learn the verdict following the jury’s deliberation.Īuthor Dan Abrams, chief legal affairs correspondent for ABC News and David Fisher, a bestselling New York Times author, previously co-authored Lincoln’s Last Trial about a murder case argued by Lincoln before his presidency.Īmong the best-known residents of Rochester’s Mount Hope Cemetery are Susan B. But throughout, the person who mesmerized the proceedings in the Onondaga County Courthouse was Theodore Roosevelt. The excerpts from the trial testimonies by some of the 104 witnesses are sometimes overshadowed by dramatic world events like the German sinking of the Lusitania. Roosevelt, add interest to this legal history. Their descriptions of the judge, lawyers, and prominent witnesses, including the defendant’s cousin Franklin D. The much publicized six-week trial provided the authors with a lengthy transcript and newspaper accounts to draw on, among other sources. Held in Syracuse, the resulting courtroom battle drew national attention and was called the “trial of the century.” “Colonel Roosevelt” as the legendary American hero was addressed, had written an article distributed across the country criticizing political parties and abuses of “Bosses” like Barnes. In 1915, six years after leaving the presidency, Theodore Roosevelt was sued for libel by William Barnes, a Republican Party “boss” who was formerly a political ally. Winter Reading Has Never Been Better by Laurel C.
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