Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case

Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case
by Stuart Taylor, KC Johnson

Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case
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Author: KC Johnson, Stuart Taylor
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-09-30
ISBN: 0312384866
Number of pages: 464
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

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Book Review: Great, great book!
Summary: 5 Stars

I am not a prodigious reader but this book was fascinating to me. The detail presented as well as timely recaps in later chapters to refresh the reader was outstanding. Those that practice the political correctness addressed in this book will hate what it has to say as it pounds away at not only this specific case but the unbalanced power awarded to college professors that shout their misguided views on racism, sexism and whatever-ism under the guise of "diversity". The authors expose the Duke professors ("Gang of 88") and their rush to judgement in a devestating way leaving them basically speechless and perhaps clueless as to the joke they have become. My new hero is Duke Economics professor E. Roy Weintraub who said it was time for the Gang of 88 "to understand that for various Duke faculty, staff, administrators, students, parents and alumni to disagree with them in public or in private is neither McCarthyism nor an academic travesty and betrayal of the values of our institution, but is rather an expression of their believing otherwise." Priceless!

Summary of Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case

?A masterful examination of the pathetic rush to judgment in the Duke rape case.? ?John Grisham

The full story of the Duke Lacrosse case, by the authors who broke it

          In this American tragedy, Stuart Taylor, Jr., and KC Johnson argue, law enforcement, a campaigning prosecutor, biased journalists, and left-leaning academics repeatedly refused to pursue the truth while scapegoats were made of these young men, recklessly tarnishing their lives.
          Until Proven Innocent is the only book that covers all five aspects of the case (personal, legal, academic, political, and media) in a comprehensive fashion.  It is also the only book to include interviews with all three of the defendants, their families, and their legal teams. And now it includes an up-to-date epilogue detailing the aftershocks and conclusion of the case.
          Taylor and Johnson?s coverage of the Duke case was the earliest, most honest, and most comprehensive in the country, and here they take on the idiocies and dishonesty of right- and left-wingers alike, shedding new light on the danger of a cultural tendency toward media-fueled travesties of justice. The context of the Duke case has vast import, and in its full telling, it is captivating nonfiction with broad political, racial, and cultural relevance to our times.

?Taylor and Johnson have made a gripping contribution to the literature of the wrongly accused.? ?The New York Times Book Review

?Until Proven Innocent is a stunning book.? ?The Wall Street Journal

?Vivid, at times chilling . . . their most biting scorn is aimed at the ?academic McCarthyism? that they say has infected top-rate American universities like Duke.? ?Newsweek

?A superb new book . . . a book that not only reads like a legal thriller, but also exposes deep problems with America?s legal system and academic culture.? ?The Economist

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