Clarence Darrow : attorney for the damned / John A. Farrell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Farrell, John A. (John Aloysius)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938.

Darrow, Clarence.

Lawyers--United States--Biography.

Lawyers.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

x, 561 pages, 16 unnumbered pages : plates ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Doubleday, [2011]

Summary:

Clarence Darrow is the lawyer every law school student dreams of being: on the side of right, loved by many women, portrayed by Spencer Tracy. His days-long closing arguments, delivered without notes, won miraculous reprieves. 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 V. 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 defending schoolteacher John Scopes in the "Monkey Trial," cementing his place in history. Journalist John A. Farrell draws on previously unpublished correspondence and memoirs to offer a candid account of Darrow's divorce, affairs, feuds, tactics, and controversies.--From publisher description.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [473]-541) and index.

ISBN:

9780385522588

0385522584

OCLC:

670479380