Attorney for the damned : Clarence Darrow in the courtroom / edited and with notes by Arthur Weinberg ; foreword by William O. Douglas.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1989.Description: xxiii, 552 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0226136493
  • 9780226136493
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Attorney for the damned.DDC classification:
  • 349.73 347.3 19
LOC classification:
  • KF213.D3 W4 1989
Online resources:
Contents:
Part One: Against Vengeance. Crime and criminals: address, Chicago, 1902 -- The crime of compulsion: Leopold and Loeb, Chicago, 1924 -- Is capital punishment a wise policy? Debate, New York, 1924 -- The 'unwritten law': the Massie Case, Honolulu, 1932. Part Two: Against Prejudice. Freedom knows no limits: the Communist trial, Chicago, 1920 -- You can't teach that! The Scopes evolution case, Dayton, Tennessee, 1925 -- You can't live there! The Sweet case, Detroit, 1926. Part Three: Against Privilege. Somewhere there is a conspiracy: the Kidd case, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, 1898 -- Strike, arbitration: anthracite miners, Scranton and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1903 -- A governor is murdered: Steve Adams, Wallace, Idaho, 1907. Part Four: For Justice. They tried to get me: Darrow in his own defense, Los Angeles, 1912 -- John Brown 1800-1859 -- John Peter Altgeld 1847-1902.
Summary: "While there has been much written about Clarence Darrow, nothing gives quite the full flavour of the man as do these addresses. Here is Darrow in the raw - as fresh as the day he spoke. These pages contain for the most part addresses which Darrow delivered to juries in criminal cases. There are in addition speeches on controversial people and subjects. Throughout each of them runs a common thread - his antagonism toward bigotry, prejudice, ignorance, and hate." -- from the Foreword by Justice William O. Douglas.
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Reprint. Originally published: New York : Simon and Schuster, 1957.

Includes bibliographical references (page 548) and index.

Part One: Against Vengeance. Crime and criminals: address, Chicago, 1902 -- The crime of compulsion: Leopold and Loeb, Chicago, 1924 -- Is capital punishment a wise policy? Debate, New York, 1924 -- The 'unwritten law': the Massie Case, Honolulu, 1932. Part Two: Against Prejudice. Freedom knows no limits: the Communist trial, Chicago, 1920 -- You can't teach that! The Scopes evolution case, Dayton, Tennessee, 1925 -- You can't live there! The Sweet case, Detroit, 1926. Part Three: Against Privilege. Somewhere there is a conspiracy: the Kidd case, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, 1898 -- Strike, arbitration: anthracite miners, Scranton and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1903 -- A governor is murdered: Steve Adams, Wallace, Idaho, 1907. Part Four: For Justice. They tried to get me: Darrow in his own defense, Los Angeles, 1912 -- John Brown 1800-1859 -- John Peter Altgeld 1847-1902.

"While there has been much written about Clarence Darrow, nothing gives quite the full flavour of the man as do these addresses. Here is Darrow in the raw - as fresh as the day he spoke. These pages contain for the most part addresses which Darrow delivered to juries in criminal cases. There are in addition speeches on controversial people and subjects. Throughout each of them runs a common thread - his antagonism toward bigotry, prejudice, ignorance, and hate." -- from the Foreword by Justice William O. Douglas.

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