Clarence Darrow
Attorney for the Damned
John A. Farrell
- Drawing
- on
- untapped
- archives
- and
- full
- of
- fresh
- revelations,
- here
- is
- the
- definitive
- biography
- of
- America’s
- legendary
- defense
- attorney
- and
- progressive
- hero.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- unpublished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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