The Death of Justice is about so much more than O.J. - or the lawyers or the judge or the media. It's an intellectual examination, in a reader-friendly style, that breaks this famous trial down into its component parts so as to examine what went right and what went wrong, what could have been done differently, and what should be done in the future. It's also about tolerance and learning to see things from the other guy's perspective. I found it to be much more important than the other drivel out there, but then again I don't consider an intelligent discussion of both sides of an issue to be boring, or liberal, or conservative. It just is, and we should do more of it.

If you loved Mr. Spence on television, you'll hate this book. Why? Because his contrarian insight on television, becomes much too hypocritical in print. He rails against the media's coverage of the trial (of which he was a part), accuses Chris Darden and Marcia Clarke of being more interested in their illicit affair than the trial, and of course informs us how he would have won the case. Save the coin. I've read all OJ books and the three best are Jeffrey Toobin's, Lawrence Schiller's and for something different, Domminick Dunne's.