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Attorney for the Damned
Knopf
May 2012
On Sale: May 1, 2012
592 pages
ISBN: 0767927591
EAN: 9780767927598
Kindle: B004CFAWXE
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Non-Fiction Biography
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unpublished correspondence and memoirs to offer a candid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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