
Clarence Darrow
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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Now, John A. Farrell draws on previously unpublished correspondence and memoirs to offer a candid account of Darrow's divorce, affairs, and disastrous finances; new details of his feud with his law partner, the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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- Intro
- Other Books by This Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction: Jefferson's Heir
- Chapter 1: Rebellions
- Chapter 2: Chicago
- Chapter 3: Prendergast
- Chapter 4: Populist
- Chapter 5: Free Love
- Chapter 6: Labor's Lawyer
- Chapter 7: Ruby, Ed, and Citizen Hearst
- Chapter 8: Industrial Warfare
- Chapter 9: Big Bill
- Chapter 10: Frailties
- Chapter 11: Los Angeles
- Chapter 12: Gethsemane
- Chapter 13: The Second Trial
- Chapter 14: Grief and Resurrection
- Chapter 15: Red Scare
- Chapter 16: All That Jazz
- Chapter 17: Loeb and Leopold
- Chapter 18: The Monkey Trial
- Chapter 19: Sweet
- Chapter 20: Crashing
- Chapter 21: Closing
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- A Note on Sources
- Index
- Photography Credits
- About the Author
- Illustrations
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