"Now comes veteran defense lawyer and civil libertarian Harvey A. Silverglate with riveting case studies exposing in technicolor a pattern of serious abuses and convictions of innocent people in some of the most famous (as well as obscure) federal cases of recent decades. Abetted by compliant courts and easily gulled media, the feds brand as criminals good people who intended no crime."
Stuart Taylor, Jr., National Journal columnist and contributing editor to Newsweek
"Silverglate has written a work peerless in revelations about the mad expansion of federal statutes whose result is to define, as criminal, practices no rational citizen could have viewed as illegal...Silverglate brings home, unforgettably, the truth that everyone is vulnerable to the terrors wrought by out of control prosecutors...It’s a bombshell that was worth waiting for."
Dorothy Rabinowitz, Wall Street Journal editorialist and a winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Harvey A. Silverglate is counsel to Boston’s Zalkind, Rodriguez, Lunt, & Duncan LLP, specializing in criminal defense, civil liberties, and academic freedom/student rights law. He is co-founder and Chairman of FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) and is a regular columnist for The Boston Phoenix. Silverglate has been published in The National Law Journal, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times Book Review, and elsewhere. He is the author of The Shadow University with Alan Charles Kors.
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