Darrow a biography

  • A detailed, extensive examination of the life and career of the great radical lawyer pays special attention to Darrow's allegiances, courtroom strategies, and.
  • A detailed, extensive examination of the life and career of the great radical lawyer pays special attention to Darrow's allegiances, courtroom strategies.
  • The definitive biography of Clarence Darrow, the brilliant, idiosyncratic lawyer who defended John Scopes in the “Monkey Trial” and gave voice to the populist.

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    Clarence Darrow

    American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union (1857–1938)

    Clarence Darrow

    Darrow in 1922

    In office
    January 7, 1903 – January 4, 1905
    Preceded byAlbert Glade
    Succeeded byEdward W. Gillispie
    Born

    Clarence Seward Darrow


    (1857-04-18)April 18, 1857
    Farmdale, Ohio, U.S.
    DiedMarch 13, 1938(1938-03-13) (aged 80)
    Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
    Political partyIndependent
    Other political
    affiliations    		Public Ownership (1903–1905)
    Spouses

    Jessie Ohl

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    (m. 1880; div. 1897)​

    Ruby Hammerstrom

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    (m. 1903)​
    Children1
    Relatives
    Alma materAllegheny College
    University of Michigan
    OccupationLawyer
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    Clarence Seward Darrow (; April 18, 1857 – March 13, 1938) was an American lawyer who became famous in the 19th century for high profile representations of trade union causes,

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    Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned

    April 6, 2017
    He was a radical in the age of laissez faire. “With the land and possessions of America rapidly passing into the hands of a favored few; with thousands of men and women in idleness and want; with wages constantly tending to a lower level . . . with the knowledge that the servants of the people elected to correct abuses are bought and sold in legislative halls at the bidding of corporations and individuals; with all these notorious evils sapping the foundations of popular government and destroying personal liberty, some rude awakening must come.”

    That was the legendary attorney Clarence Darrow: champion of labor, a founding director of the NAACP and co-founder of the ACLU, “the country’s most prominent and outspoken atheist,” advocate of free love, “Jefferson’s heir — his time’s foremost champion of anställda liberty,” a superstar of his time. As John A. Farrell describes him, Darrow was “a Byronic hero — intelligent, captivating

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    John A. Farrell

    ‘Farrell offers excerpts from Darrow’s magnificent courtroom arguments as well as delicious details of his personal life (he was a hearty participant in the era’s free love movement). [He] gleans from previously undisclosed material to offer a completely engaging portrait of a flawed man of noble ideals.’

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    ‘Attorney for the Damned is a must read for anyone interested in the art of lawyering.’

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    ‘John Farrell’s Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned is a riveting historical drama filled with strange twists and turns. Every page is a triumph of scholarship. A marvelous biography!’

    Douglas Brinkley, Professor of History at Rice University and author
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