{"product_id":"nobody-wins-alone-reid-harlow-9798199064279","title":"Nobody Wins Alone: Gideon v. Wainwright and the Right That Changed American Justice","description":"In the summer of 1961, a fifty-one-year-old drifter named Clarence Earl Gideon was charged with breaking into a pool hall in Panama City, Florida. He had no money. He asked the judge to appoint him a lawyer. The judge refused. Gideon represented himself, was convicted, and sentenced to five years in prison. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom his cell, he wrote to the Supreme Court of the United States. In pencil, on prison stationery, five handwritten pages. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Court agreed to hear his case. It appointed Abe Fortas - one of Washington's most accomplished lawyers - to argue it. On March 18, 1963, all nine justices ruled in Gideon's favour. Every person charged with a serious crime in the United States, the Court held, has the constitutional right to a lawyer. If they cannot afford one, the government must provide one. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGideon was retried later that year. This time, he had a lawyer. The jury acquitted him in under an hour. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNobody Wins Alone tells the full story of how a pencil letter from a prison cell became one of the most celebrated constitutional decisions in American history - and what happened to the right it created. From the pool hall break-in to the unanimous Supreme Court decision, from the establishment of the public defender system to the resource crisis that has plagued it ever since, Reid Harlow traces the journey of a principle from the page of the Constitution into the courtrooms of a nation still struggling to deliver on its promise. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe right exists. Whether it is truly being honoured is the question that Gideon's legacy still asks.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Reid Harlow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798199064279\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/28\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 86\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.22d","brand":"Reid Harlow","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48852915912959,"sku":"9798199064279","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/nobody-wins-alone-reid-harlow-9798199064279","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}