Drawing on untapped archives and full of fresh revelations, here is the definitive biography of America's legendary defence attorney and progressive hero. Clarence Darrow is the lawyer every law 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. Darrow left a promising career as a railroad lawyer during the tumultuous Gilded Age in order to champion poor ...
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Drawing on untapped archives and full of fresh revelations, here is the definitive biography of America's legendary defence attorney and progressive hero. Clarence Darrow is the lawyer every law 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. 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 landmark Pullman Strike case and went from one headline case to the next - until he was nearly crushed by an indictment for bribing a jury. He redeemed himself in Dayton, Tennessee, defending schoolteacher John Scopes in the 'Monkey Trial', cementing his place in history. Now, John Farrell draws on previously unpublished correspondence and memoirs to offer a candid account of Darrow's divorce, affairs, and disastrous finances; new details of his feud with his law partner, the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. Clarence Darrow is a sweeping, surprising portrait of a legendary legal mind.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. x, 561 p., [16] p. of plates: ill.; 25 cm. LCCN 2010046273 Type of material Book Personal name Farrell, John A. (John Aloysius) Main title Clarence Darrow: attorney for the damned / John A. Farrell. Edition 1st ed. Published/Created New York: Doubleday, c2011. Description x, 561 p., [16] p. of plates: ill.; 25 cm. ISBN 9780385522588 (hbk. LC classification KF373. D35 F37 2011 Contents Rebellions--Chicago--Prendergast--Populists--Free love--Labor's lawyer--Ruby, Ed, and Citizen Hearst--Industrial warfare--Big bill--Frailties--Los Angeles--Gethsemane--The second trial--Grief and resurrection--Red scare--All that jazz--Loeb and Leopold--The monkey trial--Sweet--Crashing--Closing. LC Subjects Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938. Lawyers--United States--Biography. LC Children's Subjects Lawyers. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. [473]-541) and index. Geographic area code n-us---
If you are an aspiring criminal lawyer, I would highly recommend this audio version of Attorney for the Damned, Clarence Darrow. The CDs run for about 21 hours and provides a pleasant dialog of the life and times of the pre-eminent courtroom lawyer.
The setting is late nineteenth and early twentieth century, however, some cases bear resemblance to our current judicial system.
Time changes, however the law may not.
