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Title

The story of my life / by Clarence Darrow ; new introduction by Alan M. Dershowitz.

Author

Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938

Publication

New York : Da Capo Press, 1996.

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Additional Authors

Dershowitz, Alan M.

Description

xvi, 495 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

In The Story of My Life recounts, and reflects on, his more than fifty years as a corporate, labor, and criminal lawyer, including the most celebrated and notorious cases of his day: establishing the legal right of a union to strike in the Woodworkers' Conspiracy Case; exposing, on behalf of the United Mine Workers, the shocking conditions in the mines and the widespread use of child labor; defending Leopold and Loeb in the Chicago "thrill" murder case; defending a teacher's right to present the Darwinian theory of evolution in the famous Scopes trial; fighting racial hatred in the Sweet anti-Negro and the Scottsboro cases; and much more. Written in his disarming, conversational style, and full of refreshingly relevant views on capital punishment, civil liberties

Subject

• Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938
• Dershowitz, Alan M
• Lawyers > United States > Biography

Genre/Form

Biographies

Note

• Originally published: New York : C. Scribner's Sons, 1932.
• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Before the beginning -- My childhood in Kinsman -- At the threshold of life -- Called to the bar -- I make a hit -- Getting on -- Railroad strike -- Eugene V. Debs -- How I fell -- Child training -- I meet Mr. Bryan -- Pardoning the anarchists -- John P. Altgeld -- Coal strike -- Flier in politics -- Skeleton in the forest -- Athens of the sage-brush -- Haywood trial -- Still rattling the skeleton -- In search of a germ -- McNamara case -- Lights and shadows -- George Bissett -- Back to Chicago -- War -- Aftermath of war -- Loeb-Leopold tragedy -- Loeb-Leopold trial -- Evolution case -- Science versus fundamentalism -- Bryan foundation -- "Dry" America -- Eighteenth Amendment -- Negro in the north -- Year in Europe -- Learning to loaf -- Campaign against crime -- Cause and effect -- Blind leading the blind -- Why capital punishment? -- New habit -- Questions without answers -- Future life -- Delusion of design and purpose -- Law as it is -- Slowing down -- Toward the end of the trail

ISBN

0306807386 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^96017195^

OCLC

• 34576825
• SCSB-10875658

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library