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Attorney for the Damned
Doubleday
June 2011
On Sale: June 14, 2011
576 pages
ISBN: 0385522584
EAN: 9780385522588
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Drawing on untapped archives and full of fresh revelations,
here is the definitive biography of America’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.
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Now, John A. Farrell draws on previously unpublished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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