Name: The Story Of My Life von Clarence Darrow
SKU: 9780306807381
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The Story Of My Life Zusammenfassung

The Story Of My Life Clarence Darrow

In The Story of My Life recounts, and reflects on, his more than fifty years as a corporate, labour, 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 labour 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, and the judicial system, Darrow's autobiography is a fitting final summation of a remarkable life.

Über Clarence Darrow

In 1894 Clarence S. Darrow (1857-1938) resigned from his lucrative job as chief counsel for the Chicago and North Western Railway to defend, without fee, Eugene V. Debs, president of the nascent American Railway Union. This bold action,the first of many,marked the beginning of one of the most extraordinary and influential legal careers in American history.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

* Before the Beginning * My Childhood Kinsman * At the Threshold of Life * Called to the Bar * I Make A Hit * Getting On * The Railroad Strike * Eugene V. Debs * How I Fell * Child Training * I Meet Mr. Bryan * Pardoning the Anarchists * John P. Altgeld * The Coal Strike * A Flier in Politics * The Skeleton in the Forest * The Athens of the Sage-Brush * The Haywood Trial * Still Rattling the Skeleton * In Search of a Germ * The McNamara Case * Lights and Shadows * George Bisset * Back to Chicago * War * The Aftermath of the War * The Loeb-Leopold Trial * The Evolution Case * Science versus Fundamentalism * The Bryan Foundation * A Dry America * The Eighteenth Amendment * The Negro in the North * A Year in Europe * Learning to Loaf * The Campaign Against Crime * Cause and Effect * The Blind Leading the Blind * Why Capital Punishment? * A New Habit * Questions Without Answers * Future Life * Delusion of Design and Purpose * The Law as it Is * Slowing Down * Toward the End of the Trail * The Massie Trial

Zusätzliche Informationen

Sku

GOR001906562

ISBN 13

9780306807381

ISBN 10

0306807386

Titel

The Story Of My Life Clarence Darrow

Autor

Clarence Darrow

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Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

Hachette Books

Datum

19960822

Anzahl der Seiten

508

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