Delves beneath the surface to examine the forces that made Sontag an international icon, exploring her public persona and private passions, including the strategies behind her meteoric rise to fame an
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Recounts famous American trials, including those of Aaron Burr, Lizzie Borden, Alger Hiss, Lenny Bruce, Patty Hearst, Jim Bakker, Manuel Noriega, and Rodney King, and describes the background, partici