Rather His Own Man
In Court with Tyrants, Tarts and Troublemakers
Geoffrey Robertson led students in the '60s to demand an end to racism and censorship. He went on to become a top human rights advocate, saving the lives of many death-row inmates, freeing dissidents and taking on tyrants in a career marked by courage, determination and a fierce independence.In this witty, honest and sometimes irreverent memoir, he recalls battles on behalf of George Harrison and Julian Assange, Salman Rushdie and Václav Havel, Mike Tyson and the Sex Pistols, and battles against General Pinochet, Lee Kuan Yew and Mrs Thatcher (the true story of Spycatcher is told for the first time).Interspersed with these forensic fireworks…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-78590-398-4
- EAN: 9781785903984
- Produktnummer: 27390651
- Verlag: Biteback Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 480 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'957 KB
Über den Autor
Geoffrey Robertson QC is founder and head of Doughty Street Chambers, the UK's leading human rights legal practice. A barrister, academic, author and broadcaster, Robertson is the author of celebrated books including The Justice Game, Stephen Ward Was Innocent, OK and An Inconvenient Genocide .In 2011 he received the New York State Bar Association's Award for 'Distinction in International Law and Affairs', and was Australian Humanitarian of the Year in 2014.
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