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050 4 $aKF213.D3$bK47 2012
100 1 $aKersten, Andrew Edmund,$d1969-
245 10 $aClarence Darrow :$bAmerican iconoclast /$cAndrew E. Kersten.
260 $aNew York :$bHill and Wang,$c2012, ©2011.
300 $axii, 306 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, portrait ;$c24 cm
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520 $a"Clarence Darrow is best remembered as the defense attorney in some of the most famous (and infamous) case in American legal history. With his brilliant closing argument that saved the thrill killers Leopold and Loeb from the gallows and his impassioned defense of John T. Scopes's right to teach evolution in the classroom, Darrow became a legend even in his own time. But such a towering reputation often obscures the man behind it, and attempts to shoehorn him into a single political party due to this long association with the labor movement have only further muddled his legacy. As the historian Andrew E. Kersten shows in this insightful biography of America's most celebrated lawyer, neither Darrow's courtroom performance nor his politics define his career or enduring importance. Going well beyond the familiar story of the socially conscious lawyer and drawing upon new archival records, Kersten reveals that Darrow was an iconoclast driven by the rising interference of corporations and government in ordinary working Americans' lives. In the face of the country's inexorable march toward modernity, Darrow dedicated himself to smashing systems of social control, fighting for liberty and individualism everywhere he went."--Provided by publisher
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tA midwestern childhood --$tA bum profession --$tBecoming the "attorney for the damned" --$tFighting for the people in and out of court --$tLabor's lyrical lawyer --$tIn defense of dynamiters --$tDarrow defends Darrow --$tWar and regret --$tThe old lion still hunts --$tNo rest, no retirement, no retreat.
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