Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned by Farrell, John A.

Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780767927598)

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Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned by Farrell, John A.

Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned

$22.00
Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned by Farrell, John A.

Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned

$22.00
Format: Paperback
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Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography

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 and the progressive era, Clarence Darrow became America's greatest defense attorney, successfully championing poor workers, blacks, and social and political outcasts, against big business, fundamentalist religion, Jim Crow, and the US government. His courtroom style--a mixture of passion, improvisation, charm, and tactical genius--won miraculous reprieves for men doomed to hang. In Farrell's hands, Darrow is a Byronic figure, a renegade whose commitment to liberty led him to heroic courtroom battles and legal trickery alike.

Author: John A. Farrell
ISBN-10: 0767927591
ISBN-13: 9780767927598
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2012
Pages: 592
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.17w x 1.21d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 06/10/2012 pg. 32
By John A. Farrell
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John Aloysius Farrell is the author of Richard Nixon: The Life, a biography of that most enigmatic 37th president of the United States.

His previous books are Clarence Darrow: Attorney For The Damned, a biography of America's greatest defense attorney, and of Tip O'Neill and the Democratic Century, the definitive account of House Speaker Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill Jr. and his times.

Farrell is an American journalist and author. He is a contributing editor to Politico Magazine, after a prize-winning career as a newspaperman, most notably at The Denver Post and The Boston Globe, where he worked as White House correspondent and served on the vaunted Spotlight team.

His biography of Clarence Darrow was awarded the Los Angeles Times book prize for the best biography of 2011, and won critical praise from reviewers and fellow writers.

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