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The Great Trials of Clarence Darrow - The Landmark Cases of Leopold and Loeb John T Scopes and Ossian Sweet - cover

The Great Trials of Clarence Darrow - The Landmark Cases of Leopold and Loeb John T Scopes and Ossian Sweet

Donald McRae

Publisher: HarperCollins e-books

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“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 Pyle’s WarThe story of the three dramatic trials that resurrected the life and career of America’s 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 Cowan’s The People v. Clarence Darrow; Simon Baatz’s For the Thrill of It; Kevin Boyle’s Arc of Justice; Meyer Levin’s Compulsion and the film adaptation of the same name; Inherit the Wind; but few, if any, have achieved the intimacy and immediacy of Donald McRae’s The Great Trials of Clarence Darrow.
Available since: 04/29/2010.
Print length: 436 pages.

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