Letters from Nuremberg: My Father's Narrative of a Quest for Justice - Hardcover

Dodd, Christopher J.; Bloom, Lary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0307381161 ISBN 13: 9780307381163

Publisher: Crown Pub, 2007

Synopsis

The senior U.S. senator from Connecticut provides an insider's glimpse of the famed Nuremberg trials, based on the letters of his father, a prosecutor at the trials, to his mother, offering important insights into the daily events in the courtroom, the Nazi war criminals who were on trial, and the standards of justice and international rules of law exemplified by Nuremberg. 75,000 first printing.

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About the Author

CHRISTOPHER J. DODD, son of the late Senator Thomas J. Dodd, is a U.S. senator from Connecticut. He is chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee and a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Labor and Human Resources Committee. A former Peace Corps volunteer, Senator Dodd is a recipient of the Edmund S. Muskie Public Service Award and is also widely known for his work on children and family issues. He and his wife, Jackie Clegg Dodd, have two young daughters, Grace and Christina, and live in a converted schoolhouse in East Haddam, Connecticut.

LARY BLOOM, author of The Writer Within, Lary Bloom’s Connecticut Notebook, and other books, is a columnist for the New York Times and Connecticut magazine. He is also a playwright, lyricist, and memoir teacher, and was the editor of the Sunday magazines of the Miami Herald and the Hartford Courant. He lives in Chester, Connecticut. His website is www.larybloom.net.

Edition details

• Publisher: Crown Pub
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0307381161
• ISBN 13: 9780307381163
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 373