Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned

Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned

Drawing on untapped archives and full of fresh revelations, here is the definitive biography of Americaâ‚¬s legendary defense attorney and progressive hero.

Clarence Darrow is the lawyer every law school student dreams of being: on the side of right, loved by many women, played by Spencer Tracy in Inherit the Wind. His days-long closing arguments delivered without notes won miraculous reprieves for men doomed to hang.
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Darrow left a promising career as a railroad lawyer during the tumultuous Gilded Age in order to champion poor workers, blacks, and social and political outcasts against big business, Jim Crow, and corrupt officials. He became famous defending union leader Eugene Debs in the landÂmark Pullman Strike case and went from one headline case to the nextâ‚¬"until he was nearly crushed by an indictment for bribing a jury. He redeemed himself in Dayton, Tennessee, defending schoolteacher John Scopes in the â‚¬Å“Monkey Trial,â‚¬Â cementing his place in history.
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Now, John A. Farrell draws on previously unpublished correspondence and memoirs to offer a candid account of Darrowâ‚¬s divorce, affairs, and disastrous finances; new details of his feud with his law partner, the famous poet Edgar Lee Masters; a shocking disclosure about one of his most controversial cases; and explosive revelations of shady tactics he used in his own trial for bribery.
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Clarence Darrow is a sweeping, surprising portrait of a legÂendary legal mind.
Country USA
Brand Doubleday
Manufacturer Doubleday
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2011-06-14
Format Deckle Edge
EANs 9780385522588

Country	USA
Brand	Doubleday
Manufacturer	Doubleday
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2011-06-14
Format	Deckle Edge
EANs	9780385522588

Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned

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