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"Wonderfully evocative... Donald McRae captures the Great Defender in all his complexity.... A joy to read." -- Kevin Boyle, National Book Award-winning author of Arc of Justice
Astonishingly vivid. --James Tobin, Award-winning author of Ernie Pyle's War
The story of the three dramatic trials that resurrected the life and career of America's most colorful--and controversial--defense attorney: Clarence Darrow. Many books, plays, and movies have covered Darrow and the trials of Leopold and Loeb, John T. Scopes, and Ossian Sweet before: Geoffrey Cowan's The People v. Clarence Darrow; Simon Baatz's For the Thrill of It; Kevin Boyle's Arc of Justice; Meyer Levin's Compulsion and the film adaptation of the same name; Inherit the Wind; but few, if any, have achieved the intimacy and immediacy of Donald McRae's The Great Trials of Clarence Darrow.
Author: Donald McRae
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 05/18/2010
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.68w x 1.23d
ISBN13: 9780061161506
ISBN10: 0061161500
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Lawyers & Judges
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical