# Twelve Angry Men

**Author:** Reginald Rose
**Grade range:** Grades 8–10
**Age range:** 13–16
**First published:** 1954
**Page count:** 96
**Genre:** Drama
**ISBN-13:** `9780143104407`
**ISBN-10:** `0143104403`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/twelve-angry-men
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Reginald Rose's courtroom drama confines twelve jurors to a single room as they deliberate a homicide case that at first seems open-and-shut. One holdout juror's insistence on examining the evidence slowly turns the group, exposing each man's prejudices and the meaning of reasonable doubt. Compact and dialogue-driven, it is a perennial grade 8-10 text for units on justice, persuasion, and civic responsibility.

## Themes

- justice
- prejudice
- responsibility
- rhetoric and persuasion
- conscience

## Content notes

- discussion of violence

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