Gerry Spence - Lost Frontier: Images and Narrative

Gerry Spence,

ISBN 10: 1423632907 / ISBN 13: 9781423632900

Published by Gibbs Smith Publishers October 2013, 2013

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A visual autobiography and portfolio of one of the West's famous trial attorneys The Lost Frontier features a generous and dazzling collection of the author's own paintings and photographs, vividly embellishing his story of growing up in the Depression and his evolution as an attorney and advocate for the disenfranchised. Most importantly, it uniquely documents his life in and relationship with his beloved state of Wyoming. With an unabashedly iconoclastic view of how things are and how they should be, these images and words could only have been created by Gerry Spence. Gerry Spence is a well-known trial attorney who has tried and won many nationally known cases, including the Karen Silkwood case and the defense of Imelda Marcos. He also founded the Trial Lawyers College, which established a revolutionary method for training lawyers for the people. He is the author of sixteen books, including the best-seller How to Argue and Win Every Time, and has been a frequent commentator on television, including serving as legal consultant for NBC covering the O. J. Simpson trial. He lives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, with his wife of forty years, Imaging. Seller Inventory # 140559

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Title: Gerry Spence - Lost Frontier: Images and ...

Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publishers October 2013

Publication Date: 2013

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

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A visual autobiography and portfolio of one of the West’s famous trial attorneys

The Lost Frontier features a generous and dazzling collection of the author’s own paintings and photographs, vividly embellishing his story of growing up in the Depression and his evolution as an attorney and advocate for the disenfranchised. Most importantly, it uniquely documents his life in and relationship with his beloved state of Wyoming. With an unabashedly iconoclastic view of how things are and how they should be, these images and words could only have been created by Gerry Spence.

Gerry Spence is a well-known trial attorney who has tried and won many nationally known cases, including the Karen Silkwood case and the defense of Imelda Marcos. He also founded the Trial Lawyers College, which established a revolutionary method for training lawyers for the people. He is the author of sixteen books, including the best-seller How to Argue and Win Every Time, and has been a frequent commentator on television, including serving as legal consultant for NBC covering the O. J. Simpson trial. He lives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, with his wife of forty years, Imaging.

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The Lost Frontier is a rich visual autobiography of Gerry Spence, one of this country’s most famous trial attorneys. It features a generous and dazzling collection of the author’s own paintings and photographs, vividly embellishing his story of growing up during the Depression and his evolution as an attorney and advocate for the disenfranchised. Most importantly, it uniquely documents his life in and relationship with his beloved state of Wyoming.

With an unabashedly iconoclastic view of how things are and how they should be, these words and images could only have been created by Gerry Spence.

Gerry Spence is a well-known trial attorney who has spent his life representing the poor, the injured, the forgotten, and the damned. He has never lost a criminal case, and has not lost a civil case since 1969. He has tried and won many nationally known cases, including the Karen Silkwood case and the defense of Imelda Marcos. He also founded the Trial Lawyers College, which established a revolutionary method for training lawyers for the people. He is the author of sixteen previous books, including the best-selling How to Argue and Win Every Time, and has been a frequent commentator on television, including serving as legal consultant for NBC covering the O. J. Simpson trial. He lives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, with his wife, Imaging.