Theaters of Pardoning

Author/Contributor(s):	Meyler, Bernadette
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	09/15/2019
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

From Gerald Ford's preemptive pardon of Richard Nixon and Donald Trump's claims that as president he could pardon himself to the posthumous royal pardon of Alan Turing, the power of the pardon has a powerful hold on the political and cultural imagination. In Theaters of Pardoning, Bernadette Meyler traces the roots of contemporary...