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About John A. Farrell
See more books from this Authorand the friends and family of Thalia Massie, on trial in Hawaii for a so-called “honor killing.” These cases—including two in which Darrow, almost surely guilty, was himself tried for jury tampering—dominate the narrative, but Farrell neatly places them within the larger context of this complicat...
May 04 2011 | Read Full Review of Clarence DarrowSo Clarence Darrow began his long career as America’s greatest criminal attorney by defending the man who had murdered his boss.
Jul 08 2011 | Read Full Review of Clarence DarrowThe book's descriptions of Darrow's trials and tactics reflect that Darrow's style and effectiveness were bolstered by practicing in an era preceding uniform codes of evidence and in which closing arguments could stretch out over days.
Jun 12 2011 | Read Full Review of Clarence DarrowIf men are so cruel as to break other men's necks, so greedy as to be restrained only by money, then a sensitive man must bribe to save.' " Notice, however, that Parton does not say Darrow ever confessed to her.
Jan 29 2014 | Read Full Review of Clarence DarrowWhether defending Darwinists or cold-blooded killers, one lawyer was always the center of attention.
Jun 25 2011 | Read Full Review of Clarence DarrowFarrell in “Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned.” And there Darrow would have remained, an uncomplicated figure, emblazoned in collective memory, a mix of Henry Fonda and Spencer Tracy, if not for this groundbreaking biography, the first to make use of new archival material that gives depth ...
Jul 15 2011 | Read Full Review of Clarence DarrowJohn Farrell's biography is a well-written account of a great lawyer and an effective summation of Darrow's story.
Jun 28 2011 | Read Full Review of Clarence DarrowThe complex defense lawyer is examined in enlightening detail.
Jun 26 2011 | Read Full Review of Clarence DarrowBy the time he defended Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb ― two wealthy Chicago teenagers facing execution in 1924 for murdering Bobby Frank, a younger friend, on a lark ― Darrow had defended more than 100 capital cases and lost only one client to the executioner.
Jun 27 2011 | Read Full Review of Clarence DarrowBoth Farrell and Kersten present admiring portraits of the great courtroom orator — “America’s greatest attorney,” Kersten calls him — and highlight his role in Progressive causes a century ago.
Jul 18 2011 | Read Full Review of Clarence DarrowProgressive, patriot, jury tamperer, savior, and adulterer: Clarence Darrow was all of these and more at one time or another, but many of his time called him the Attorney for the Damned.
Oct 28 2011 | Read Full Review of Clarence DarrowClarence Darrow was, putting it narrowly, the greatest criminal lawyer of all time.
Jul 21 2011 | Read Full Review of Clarence DarrowLikewise, the preeminent Darrow biography to date, Irving Stone's Clarence Darrow for the Defense, was written with the cooperation of Darrow's widow and, first published in 1941, Stone did not have access to many documents Farrell uses.
Jun 12 2011 | Read Full Review of Clarence DarrowClarence Darrow: Attorney for The Damned draws upon Darrow’s private letters, excerpts from the lawyer’s book titled The Story of My Life, photographs, newspaper and magazine articles and court cases.
Jul 09 2012 | Read Full Review of Clarence DarrowThe famous poet, Edgar Lee Masters, who was Darrow's law partner, viewed Darrow as somewhat of a phony, claiming Darrow chiseled him out of some fees.
Dec 07 2011 | Read Full Review of Clarence DarrowWhether defending Darwinists or cold-blooded killers, one lawyer was always the center of attention.
Jun 25 2011 | Read Full Review of Clarence DarrowWhether defending Darwinists or cold-blooded killers, one lawyer was always the center of attention.
Jun 25 2011 | Read Full Review of Clarence DarrowAn aggregated and normalized score based on 65 user ratings from iDreamBooks & iTunes