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Drawn testimony : my four decades as a courtroom sketch artist / Jane Rosenberg.

Summary:

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

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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.