Download or read book The Devil on Trial written by Phillip Margulies and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2008 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring five famous trials, this book examines the way our right to a fair trial can be threatened, when people are tempted to abandon their principles in the name of safety. Trials included are the Salem Witch Trials, the Haymarket Affair Trial, the Scopes "Monkey" Trial, the trial of Alger Hiss, and the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui--the latter not yet covered extensively in any book.