The Last Trials of Clarence Darrow

ISBN: 0061161497

Author: McRae, Donald

Condition: New

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 Pyles WarThe story of the three dramatic trials that resurrected the life and career of Americas 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 Cowans The People v. Clarence Darrow; Simon Baatzs For the Thrill of It; Kevin Boyles Arc of Justice; Meyer Levins Compulsion and the film adaptation of the same name; Inherit the Wind; but few, if any, have achieved the intimacy and immediacy of Donald McRaes The Great Trials of Clarence Darrow.