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Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom

Edited by: Arthur Weinberg

ISBN13: 9780226136493

ISBN: 0226136493

Previous Edition ISBN: 004899

Published: April 1989

Publisher: The University of Chicago Press

Country of Publication: USA

Format: Paperback

Price: Out of print

Clarence Darrow [was] perhaps the most effective courtroom opponent of cant, bigotry, and special privilege that our country has produced.

All of Darrow's most celebrated pleas are here--in defense of Leopold and Loeb (1924), of Lieutenant Massie (1932), of Big Bill Haywood (1907), of Thomas Scopes (1925), and of himself for attempted bribery - The New Yorker

Subjects:: Legal History, Trials, Legal History (Out of Print)

Contents:: Foreword by Justice William O. Douglas;; Introduction by Arthur Weinberg; Part One - Against Vengeance; Crime and Criminals; Address, Chicago, 1902: Inmates of County Jail in Chicago get a lecture on revolutionary theories of crime.;; The Crime of Compulsion;; Leopold and Loeb, Chicago, 1924: Teen-age sons of two millionaires attempt the perfect crime--kidnaping and murder;; Is Capital Punishment a Wise Policy; Debate, New York, 1924: Darrow debates Judge Talley who challenged Darrow's views on crime and capital punishment.;; The "Unwritten Law"; The Massie Case, Honolulu, 1932: A strange and puzzling case, a study of psychology; kidnaping and murder because of honor;; Part Two - Against Prejudice;; Freedom Knows No Limits;; The Communist Trial, Chicago, 1920: Twenty members of the Communist Labor party are charged with "conspiracy to advocate the overthrow of the government by force.";; You Can't Teach That!; The Scopes Evolution Case, Dayton, Tennessee, 1925: Darrow meets William Jennings Bryan in the famous "Monkey Trial.";; You Can't Live There; The Sweet Case, Detroit, 1926: A Negro family moves into a white neighborhood. A mob attempts to get them to move. One of the mob is killed. Dr. Sweet and friends are indicted for murder.;; Part Three - Against Privilege;; Somewhere There Is a Conspiracy;; The Kidd Case, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, 1898: Kidd, a union organizer, is charged with conspiracy, growing out of a strike in the large sash-and-door factory in Oshkosh;; Strike, Arbitration; Anthracite Miners,, Scranton and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1903: Darrow represents the United Mine Workers' union before President Theodore Roosevelt's Anthracite Miner Commission, investigating conditions in the mines.;; A Governor Is Murdered;; Steve Adams, Wallace, Idaho, 1907; Haywood, Moyer and Pettibone, Boise, Idaho, 1907: Steve Adams, the prologue to the Haywood case. Haywood, first of three union leaders tried for the murder of ex-Governor Steunenberg; the confession of Harry Orchard and his story.;; Part Four - For Justice;; They Tried to Get Me;; Darrow in his Own Defense, Los Angeles, 1912: Darrow is indicted and tried for attemped bribe of a juror in the McNamara case. He accuses his enemies as conspirators against his freedom.; John Brown 1800-1859; "One of the most purest and bravest and highest-minded patriots of any age.";; John Peter Altgeld 1847-1902; "A lover of his fellow-men.";; Sources;; Selected Bibliography;; Index;