The terrorist attack on Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killed 270 people and remains the largest mass death of Americans abroad during peacetime. This compelling and powerful narrative chronicles one man's impassioned search for justice for the victims' families in a court of law.
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The terrorist attack on Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killed 270 people and remains the largest mass death of Americans abroad during peacetime. This compelling and powerful narrative chronicles one man's impassioned search for justice for the victims' families in a court of law.
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Very Good Condition in Very Good jacket. Former library book, with usual markings and attachments. Cover, pages, and text all appear very clean. 322 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Law & Criminal Studies. ISBN: 0060197617. ISBN/EAN: 9780060197612. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1561027091.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]
Publisher:
Harper
Published:
2001
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17574602166
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Very good in Very good jacket. xiv, 322 pages. Illustrations. Appendix: Cast of Characters. Index. Minor edge soiling. Minor DJ wear and soiling. Inscribed by the author (Gerson) on the fep. Inscription reads For Aidan in the hope you will draw strength from this saga of trials and some triumphs. Best, Allen 12/2001. Mr. Gerson graduated at the University at Buffalo in 1966. He received a law degree from New York University in 1969, a master of laws degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1972 and a doctor of juridical science from Yale University in 1976. Gerson was a Washington lawyer and legal scholar who helped pioneer the practice of suing foreign governments in U.S. courts for complicity in terrorism, representing victims' families in the aftermath of the Lockerbie bombing and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Mr. Gerson was an author, private-practice lawyer, former professor at George Mason University and deputy assistant attorney general under President Ronald Reagan, known for representing victims of human rights abuses and terrorist attacks. As a Justice Department trial lawyer, he pursued Nazi war criminals who had immigrated to the United States, later rising to become senior counsel to two U.S. ambassadors to the United Nations, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick and Gen. Vernon A. Walters. Mr. Gerson was named Kirkpatrick's senior counsel in 1981 and chronicled those years in a book, "The Kirkpatrick Mission: Diplomacy Without Apology" (1991). He wrote books including "Israel, the West Bank and International Law" (1978) and "Privatizing Peace: From Conflict to Security" (2002) with Nat J. Colletta. President Bill Clinton called it "an attack against America, " but after Libyan agents planted a bomb aboard Pan Am Flight 103, killing 259 people in the air and 11 on the ground, America did not strike back. Instead, the grieving relatives of the victims did the unthinkable--as mere civilians-and tried to force Libya to pay for its crime. Lawyers told the families that they could never sue Libya in American courts, and they were right. This would require changing a bedrock principle of international law--a change that every government in the world feared and fought, including the United States itself. Working virtually alone at first, Allan Gerson, a former diplomat and prosecutor of Nazi war criminals, took on the case and spent the next eight years on the families' quest for justice. In this high-stakes game of international power politics and legal maneuvering, there were friendships, jobs, and reputations lost, but a precious principle--that of accountability under the law--was strengthened and preserved. Now Gerson and his co-author, Newsweek writer Jerry Adler, follow the threads of this extraordinary tale back to that deadly night over Lockerbie, Scotland--and forward into a new era of international justice, when terrorists will learn to fear the righteous retribution of their own victims. Derived from a Publishers Weekly article: In The Price of Terror also described on the dust jacket as the "Lessons of Lockerbie for a World on the Brink", Allan Gerson, a former prosecutor of Nazi war crimes, a professor of international relations at George Washington University, and Jerry Adler, a senior editor at Newsweek, reconstruct the struggle for justice for the bomb victims and their families after the 1988 terrorist bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Gerson, an expert in international law, took up the cause of pursuing the Libyan suspects, even when the U.S. government did little and lawyers told the victims' families that there was no precedent for suing Libya. Gerson and Adler track the tragedy from the moment the bomb exploded, killing 270, through the trial in Scotland. In the aftermath of September 11, this timely account of the legal, political and emotional aftermath of international mass murder will be of interest to many.
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