Clarence Darrow : attorney for the damned / John A. Farrell.
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...
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Language: | English |
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New York :
Vintage Books,
2012.
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Edition: | First Vintage Books edition. |
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Physical Description: | x, 561 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm |
Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Rebellions
- Chicago
- Prendergast
- Populist
- 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.