Ebook {Epub PDF} Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom by Clarence Darrow

Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom: Darrow, Clarence, Weinberg, Arthur: www.doorway.ru: www.doorway.ru by: 5. in , Clarence Darrow, later dubbed "Attorney for the Damned" and "the Great Defender," was born. For a time he lived in an Ohio home that had served as a stop on the Underground Railroad. His father was known as the "village infidel."/5.  · Darrow opposed bigotry, prejudice, ignorance, and hate. He was always fighting for equal protection, due process, and a fair trial. Darrow trusted juries more than judges to protect the life and liberty of the citizen. He was also a champion of labor when unions were often regarded as illegal, and suffered from government by www.doorway.ru by: 5.

CLARENCE DARROW: ATTORNEY FOR THE DAMNED is a new biography of one of the greatest courtroom advocates in history. Darrow began his legal career as a representative of big business, representing railroads and defending claims of injured workers. In his mids, after a move from Ohio to Chicago, Darrow became a defender of the downtrodden. "Clarence Darrow [was] perhaps the most effective courtroom opponent of cant, bigotry, and special privilege that our country has produced. All of Darrow's most celebrated pleas are here-in defense of Leopold and Loeb (), of Lieutenant Massie (), of Big Bill Haywood (), of Thomas Scopes (), and of himself for attempted bribery."-. Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned. Clarence Darrow.: The definitive biography of Clarence Darrow, the brilliant, idiosyncratic lawyer who defended John Scopes in the "Monkey Trial" and gave voice to the populist masses at the turn of the twentieth century, thus changing American law forever. Amidst the tumult of the industrial age.

The chapter on Leopold and Loeb alone is worth waiting in line to get a seat in Jack Farrell's courtroom.” —David Maraniss, author of When Pride Still Mattered and They Marched into Sunlight. “John Farrell’s Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned is a riveting historical drama filled with strange twists and turns. Darrow opposed bigotry, prejudice, ignorance, and hate. He was always fighting for equal protection, due process, and a fair trial. Darrow trusted juries more than judges to protect the life and liberty of the citizen. He was also a champion of labor when unions were often regarded as illegal, and suffered from government by injunction. With a Foreword by Justice William O. Douglas. A famous defender of the underdog, the oppressed, and the powerless, Clarence Darrow (–) is one of the true legends of the American legal system. His cases were many and various, but all were marked by his unequivocal sense of justice, as well as his penchant for representing infamous and unpopular clients, such as the Chicago thrill killers Leopold and Loeb; Ossian Sweet, the African American doctor charged with murder after fighting.