by Conrad Black
213 Disclosure: I was charged with 17 counts of financial and related crimes in 2005, of which four were abandoned, nine rejected by jurors, four unanimously vacated by the Supreme Court of the U.S., and two spuriously and self-servingly retrieved by a lower-court judge whom the high court had excoriated but to whom it remanded the four counts for assessment of the gravity of his own errors. I was sent to prison for three years and two weeks, where I was a tutor and teacher, able to help over a hundred fellow inmates to matriculate. The chances that I would ever have committed a crime have always been less than zero, and I was able to assess the terrible imbalances and excess of contemporary U.S. justice.
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Black, Conrad.
Flight of the eagle: the grand strategies that brought America from colonial
dependence to world leadership/Conrad Black.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
eISBN : 978-1-594-03674-3
1. United States—Foreign relations. 2. Strategic culture—United States—History.
3. United States—Foreign relations administration. 4. Presidents—United States—History. I. Title.
E183.7.B57 2013
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