The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau: Psychiatry and the Law in the Gilded Age by Charles E. Rosenberg

The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau: Psychiatry and the Law in the Gilded Age

Charles E. Rosenberg

308 pages • first pub 1968 (view editions)

nonfiction history psychology dark informative medium-paced
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In this brilliant study, Charles Rosenberg uses the celebrated trial of Charles Guiteau, who assassinated President Garfield in 1881, to explore insanity and criminal responsibility in the Gilded Age. Rosenberg masterfully reconstructs the courtro...

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