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Robert A. Ferguson is George Edward Wood berry Professor in Law, Literature, and Criticism at Columbia University. His books in law and literature include Law and Letters in American Culture (Harvard University Press, 1987); The American Enlightenment, 1750–1820 (Harvard University Press, 1997); Reading the Early Republic (Harvard University Press, 2006); and most recently, The Trial in American Life (University of Chicago Press, 2008).