Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned

FEATURED Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned

Drawing on untapped archives and complete of fresh revelations, right here is the definitive biography of America’s legendary defense attorney and progressive hero.

Clarence Darrow is the lawyer each law school student dreams of getting: on the side of appropriate, loved by many females, played by Spencer Tracy in Inherit the Wind. His days-extended closing arguments delivered without having notes won miraculous reprieves for men doomed to hang.
 
Darrow left a promising career as a railroad lawyer throughout the tumultuous Gilded Age in order to champion poor workers, blacks, and social and political outcasts against large enterprise, Jim Crow, and corrupt officials. He became popular defending union leader Eugene Debs in the land­mark Pullman Strike situation and went from a single headline case to the next—until he was practically crushed by an indictment for bribing a jury. He redeemed himself in Dayton, Tennessee, defending schoolteacher John Scopes in the “Monkey Trial,” cementing his spot in history.