Attorney for the damned : Clarence Darrow in the courtroom / Clarence Darrow ; edited and with notes by Arthur Weinberg ; foreword by Justice William O. Douglas.
Originally published: New York : Simon and Schuster, 1957. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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 -- 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 -- 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 Untied 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: 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 -- For justice: They tried to get me -- Darrow in his own defense, Los Angeles, 1912: Darrow is indicted and tried for attempted bribe of a juror in the McNamara case; he accuses his enemies as conspirators against his freedom -- John Brown 1800-1859: "one of the purest and bravest and highest-minded patriots of any age" -- John Peter Altgeld 1847-1902: "a lover of his fellow-men".
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