Attorney for the Damned

Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom

Darrow Clarence

"Clarence Darrow [was] perhaps the most effective courtroom opponent of cant, bigotry, and special privilege that our country has produced. All of Darrow's most celebrated pleas are here – in defense of Leopold and Loeb (1924), of Lieutenant Massie (1932), of Big Bill Haywood (1907), of Thomas Scopes (1925), and of himself for attempted bribery" – The New Yorker

About the Author

Arthur Weinberg (1915-89) was the Lloyd Lewis Fellow in American History at the New-berry Library in Chicago. He was co-author, with Lila Weinberg, of "The Muckrakers", "Verdicts Out of Court", and "Clarence Darrow: A Sentimental Rebel", among other books.

Reviews

"That Clarence Darrow was the great protagonist of that age, no one would deny... In the present volume, Mr. Weinberg wisely permits him to speak for himself" – American Bar Association Journal

"All of Clarence Darrow's most celebrated pleas are here... As 'Justice' William O. Douglas observes in an appreciative foreword, 'His arguments are a full orchestration carrying great power in cold print' – despite, it might be added, their homespun, gallus-hitching style. The ghastly comedy of his deadpan interrogation of William Jennings Bryan on the origin of man in the Scopes case is particularly recommended" – New Yorker

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