Rose, Reginald <br/><br/>
Twelve angry men 
Reginald Rose 
 - 1st. ed. 
 - New York:  Penguin Books,  2006. 
 - 96 p.:  6 x 5.1 x 0.5 inches (paperback) 
 - Penguin Classics .
<br/><br/> A blistering character study and an examination of the American melting pot and the judicial system that keeps it in check, Twelve Angry Men holds at its core a deeply patriotic faith in the U.S. legal system. The play centers on Juror Eight, who is at first the sole holdout in an 11-1 guilty vote. Eight sets his sights not on proving the other jurors wrong but rather on getting them to look at the situation in a clear-eyed way not affected by their personal prejudices or biases. Reginald Rose deliberately and carefully peels away the layers of artifice from the men and allows a fuller picture to form of them—and of America, at its best and worst.<br/>After the critically acclaimed teleplay aired in 1954, this landmark American drama went on to become a cinematic masterpiece in 1957 starring Henry Fonda, for which Rose wrote the adaptation. More recently, Twelve Angry Men had a successful, and award-winning, run on Broadway. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780143104407 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mystery, Thriller or Terror<br/>Young Adult Literature<br/>Courthouse<br/>Drama (English)<br/>Fighting Crimes