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Drawn testimony : my four decades as a courtroom sketch artist / Jane Rosenberg.
For over forty years, Jane Rosenberg has been at the heart of the news cycle, covering almost every major trial that has passed through the New York justice system as a courtroom sketch artist, including the most recent Donald Trump hush money trial. In Drawn Testimony, Rosenberg brings us into the dramatic high-stakes world of her craft, where art, psychology and courtroom drama collide. Over the course of her legendary career, Jane has had a front-row seat to some of the most iconic and notorious moments in our nation's recent history, including cases pertaining to: Mick Jagger, Martha Stewart, Tom Brady's "Deflategate" scandal, John Lennon's murder trial, Ghislaine Maxwell, John Gotti, Harvey Weinstein, The Boston Marathon bomber, and Donald Trump. Readers will learn how she has honed her unique powers of perception and also what her portraits reveal, not only about her subjects, but about the human condition in general.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781335008046 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 254 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Toronto, ON : Hanover Square Press, [2024]
- Copyright: ©2024
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | Behind the mask : Ghislaine Maxwell -- Beginnings : early work -- Family business : John Gotti and the Mafia -- Close to home : mothers in court -- Terror : the Boston Marathon Bomber -- Infamy : Tom Brady and the celebrity curse -- Unpresidential : Trumpworld on trial -- #MeToo : Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby -- Faces of fraud : Bernie Madoff and Wall Street -- High society : the Astor trial -- Cartel : El Chapo -- Black Lives Matter : George Floyd, Michael Stewart and police brutality. |
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| Subject: | Courtroom artists > Biography. Women artists > Biography. Artists > Biography. Courts > New York (State) > New York. Courtroom art. Trials. |
| Genre: | Autobiographies. Biographies. Personal narratives. |
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- Baker & Taylor
"For over forty years, Jane Rosenberg has been at the heart of the news cycle, covering almost every major trial that has passed through the New York justice system as a courtroom sketch artist, including the most recent Donald Trump hush money trial. InDrawn Testimony, Rosenberg brings us into the dramatic high-stakes world of her craft, where art, psychology and courtroom drama collide. Over the course of her legendary career, Jane has had a front-row seat to some of the most iconic and notorious moments in our nation's recent history, including cases pertaining to: Mick Jagger, Martha Stewart, Tom Brady's "Deflategate" scandal, John Lennon's murder trial, Ghislaine Maxwell, John Gotti, Harvey Weinstein, The Boston Marathon bomber, and Donald Trump. Readers will learn how she has honed her unique powers of perception and also what her portraits reveal, not only about her subjects, but about the human condition in general" -- - Baker & Taylor
This memoir from a veteran courtroom sketch artist features her looks at history as its happening, with illustrations of such figures as Donald Trump, Ghislaine Maxwell, Martha Stewart, Robert DeNiro and Tom Brady. 100,000 first printing. - Harlequin
From Americaâs top courtroom sketch artist, a penetrating, compulsively readable memoir about her dramatic four-decade career
âA mesmerizing look at this rarest of professionsâ¦ââBookpage STARRED review
"Readers will be hard-pressed to put this down.ââPublishers Weekly STARRED review
"Rosenbergâs fascinating debut offers a front row seat to some of the most high-profile criminal cases of the last four decades."âLibrary Journal STARRED review
"Perceptive, compassionate, and endlessly fascinated by how the human condition is revealed in the courtroom, Rosenberg tells riveting and resonant tales in image and word."âBooklist STARRED review
For over forty years, Jane Rosenberg has been at the heart of the news cycle, covering almost every major trial that has passed through the New York justice system as a courtroom sketch artist, including the most recent Donald Trump hush money trial.
In Drawn Testimony, Rosenberg brings us into the dramatic high-stakes world of her craft, where art, psychology and courtroom drama collide. Over the course of her legendary career, Jane has had a front-row seat to some of the most iconic and notorious moments in our nationâs recent history, including cases pertaining to:
⢠Mick Jagger
⢠Martha Stewart
⢠Tom Brady's "Deflategate" scandal
⢠John Lennonâs murder trialÂ
⢠Ghislaine Maxwell
⢠John Gotti
⢠Harvey Weinstein
⢠The Boston Marathon bomber
⢠Donald Trump
Readers will learn how she has honed her unique powers of perception and also what her portraits reveal, not only about her subjects, but about the human condition in general.
Fearless, fascinating and gorgeously written, Drawn Testimony captures the unique career of an artist whose body of work depicts history as itâs happening.
