Drawn Testimony

Sketching a generation’s most iconic criminal cases

Jane Rosenberg

• Publisher: Manilla Press
• Year: 2024
• Topic: Law
• eBook ISBN:
  9781786582614
• Subtopic: Artist Biographies
• Index: Law

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'As captivating and nuanced as the drawings themselves' - The New York Times
'Against the odds, her prose keeps pace with her pastels' - Patrick Bringley, author of All the Beauty in the World
'Readers will be hard-pressed to put this down' - Publisher's Weekly

A penetrating, compulsively readable memoir about the four-decade career of a top courtroom sketch artist.

Jane Rosenberg is America's pre-eminent courtroom sketch artist. For over forty years, she's been at the heart of the story, covering almost every major trial that has passed through the New York justice system. From mob bosses to fallen titans of finance, terrorists and sex abusers, corrupt cops and warring entertainment icons, she has drawn them all.

In Drawn Testimony, Rosenberg brings us into the high-stakes, dramatic world of her craft, where art, psychology and courtroom drama collide. Over the course of her legendary career, Jane has had a front row seat to some of the most iconic and notorious moments in our nation's recent history, sketching everything from Tom Brady's deflate-gate case, to John Lennon's murder trial to cases against Ghislaine Maxwell, John Gotti, Harvey Weinstein and most recently, the indictment against former President Donald Trump. Readers will learn how she has honed her unique powers of perception, but also what her portraits reveal, not only about her subjects, but about the human condition in general.

Fearless, fascinating and gorgeously written, Drawn Testimony captures the unique career of an artist whose body of work depicts history as it's happening.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• One. BEHIND THE MASK: GHISLAINE MAXWELL
• Two. BEGINNINGS: EARLY WORK
• Three. FAMILY BUSINESS: JOHN GOTTI AND THE MAFIA
• Four. CLOSE TO HOME: MOTHERS IN COURT
• Five. TERROR: THE BOSTON MARATHON BOMBER
• Six. INFAMY: TOM BRADY AND THE CELEBRITY CURSE
• Seven. UNPRESIDENTIAL: TRUMPWORLD ON TRIAL
• Eight. #METOO: HARVEY WEINSTEIN AND BILL COSBY
• Nine. FACES OF FRAUD: BERNIE MADOFF AND WALL STREET
• Ten. HIGH SOCIETY: THE ASTOR TRIAL
• Eleven. CARTEL: EL CHAPO
• Twelve. BLACK LIVES MATTER: GEORGE FLOYD, MICHAEL STEWART AND POLICE BRUTALITY
• Afterword
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Copyright
• Plates