I Am Murdered： George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the Killing That Shocked a New Nation我是被谋杀的： 乔治Wythe（George Wythe）、托马斯杰斐逊（Thomas Jefferson）与震惊美国的谋杀
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作者： Bruce Chadwick 著
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出版时间： 2009-1-1字数：版次： 1页数： 280印刷时间：开本： 16开印次： 1纸张：I S B N ： 9780470185513包装： 精装编辑推荐
作者简介：
Bruce Chadwick is a historian of the American Revolution and colonial era whose books include George Washington's War, The General and Mrs. Washington, and The First American Army. He has also appeared on the History Channel.
内容简介
George Wythe clung to the mahogany banister as he inched down the staircase of his comfortable Richmond, Virginia, home. Doubled over in agony, he stumbled to the kitchen in search of help. There he found his maid, Lydia Broadnax, and his young protegé, Michael Brown, who were also writhing in distress. Hours later, when help arrived, Wythe was quick to tell anyone who would listen, "I am murdered." Over the next two weeks, as Wythe suffered a long and painful death, insults would be added to his mortal injury.
I Am Murdered tells the bizarre true story of Wythe's death and the subsequent trial of his grandnephew and namesake, George Wythe Sweeney, for the crime—unquestionably the most sensational and talked-about court case of the era. Hinging on hit-and-miss forensics, the unreliability of medical autopsies, the prevalence of poisoning, race relations, slavery, and the law, Sweeney's trial serves as a window into early nineteenth- century America. Its particular focus is on Richmond, part elegant state capital and part chaotic boomtown riddled with vice, opportunism, and crime.
As Wythe lay dying, his doctors insisted that he had not been poisoned, and Sweeney had the nerve to beg him for bail money. In I Am Murdered, this signer of the Declaration of Independence, mentor to Thomas Jefferson, and "Father of American Jurisprudence" finally gets the justice he deserved.
目录
PART ONE.
Chapter One: "I Am Murdered…".
Chapter Two: The Funeral.
Chapter Three: Homicide: Early Investigation.
Chapter Four: Williamsburg: George Wythe and Thomas Jefferson.
Chapter Five: Jefferson and Wythe Remake Virginia.
Chapter Six: Richmond: Boomtown and the Decadent Night Life Of George Wythe Sweeney.
Chapter Seven: The Dying George Wythe Changes His Will.
Chapter Eight: Moving Day: A Second Life in Richmond and the Return of George Wythe.
PART TWO.
Chapter Nine: The Arrest.
Chapter Ten: The Investigation II.
Chapter Eleven: For The Defense: William Wirt.
Chapter Twelve: For the Defense: Edmund Randolph.
Chapter Thirteen: Mourning at the Executive Mansion.
PART THREE.
Chapter Fourteen: The Forensics Nightmare, Part One: Arsenic, the Poison of Choice.
Chapter Fifteen: The Forensics Nightmare, Part Two: The Autopsy.
Chapter Sixteen: Lydia Broadnax - the Eyewitness.
Chapter Seventeen: The Black and White Legal Code.
Chapter Eighteen: Washington: October, 1806.
Acknowledgments.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.
