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Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
1957.
Language
English
Description
There has been much written about Clarence Darrow, but nothing gives quite the full flavor of the man as does this work which contains addresses which he delivered to juries in criminal cases. Here is Darrow in the raw, as fresh as the day he spoke them. In addition, there are speeches on controversial people and subjects. Throughout each of them runs a common thread...his antagonism toward bigotry, prejudice, ignorance, and hate.
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Nearly a century ago, famed liberal attorney Clarence Darrow defended schoolteacher John Scopes in a blockbuster legal proceeding that brought the attention of the entire country to the small town of Dayton, Tennessee. Darrow's seminal defense of freedom of speech helped form the legal bedrock on which our civil liberties depend today. Expertly researched, eye-opening, and stirring, The Trial of the Century calls upon our past to unite Americans...
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Clarence Darrow is best remembered for his individual cases, whether defending the thrill killers Leopold and Loeb or John Scopes's right to teach evolution in the classroom. In the first full-length biography of Darrow in decades, the historian Andrew E. Kersten narrates the complete life of America's most legendary lawyer and the struggle that defined it, the fight for the American traditions of individualism, freedom, and liberty in the face of...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
"Lies, murder, and a legendary courtroom battle threaten to tear apart the Territory of Hawaii. In September of 1931, Thalia Massie, a young naval lieutenant's wife, claims to have been raped by five Hawaiian men in Honolulu. Following a hung jury in the rape trial, Thalia's mother, socialite Grace Fortescue, and husband, along with two sailors, kidnap one of the accused in an attempt to coerce a confession. When they are caught after killing him...
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Based on the real-life 1925 trial featuring Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan. Famous lawyer Henry Drummond battles fundamentalist Matthew Brady in a Tennessee courtroom when schoolteacher Bertram Cates is put on trial for violating the Butler Act, a state law that prohibits public school teachers from teaching evolution.
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