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Clarence Darrow is the lawyer every law school student dreams of being: privately of right, cherished by a lot of women, played by Spencer Tracy in Inherit the Blowing wind. His days-long shutting arguments delivered without notes earned miraculous reprieves for men doomed to hang. Darrow left a promising job as a railroad lawyer during the tumultuous Gilded Era to be able to champion poor workers, blacks, and social and political outcasts against big business, Jim Crow, and corrupt officials. He became famous defending union head Eugene Debs in the landsymbol Pullman Strike circumstance and went from one headline circumstance to the next-until he was almost smashed by an indictment for bribing a jury. He redeemed himself in Dayton, Tennessee, defending schoolteacher John Scopes in the "Monkey Trial," cementing his place in history. Now, John A. Farrell draws on previously unpublished correspondence and memoirs to provide a candid consideration of Darrow's divorce, affairs, and devastating finances; new information on his feud with his law spouse, the famous poet Edgar Lee Experts; a shocking disclosure about one of his most controversial situations; and explosive revelations of shady techniques he used in his own trial for bribery. Clarence Darrow is a sweeping, amazing portrait of an legendary legal brain.
