Clarence Darrow: Verdicts Out of Court [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Darrow, Clarence; Weinberg, Arthur (editor); Weinberg, Lila (editor)

Published by Quadrangle Books, Chicago, Illinois, 1963

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Fine condition half red/half dark blue cloth boards with gold spine lettering, contained in a good condition price-clipped dust jacket. The upper jacket spine edge and jacket tips are chipped, with some additional scattered edgewear (see photographs). Includes Dedication; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Epilogue; Source Materials; Selected Bibliography and Index. "What were the qualities that made him great? Why are his statements so startlingly relevant today? Here for the first time in book form are the writings and debates of Clarence Darrow that reveal why he was such a force to be reckoned with in the court of law and in the court of public opinion. The great attorney's pronouncements, ranging from the Negro problem and politics to non-violent resistance and social action, contribute to a re-evaluation of America's destiny. Typical of Darrow: "Revolution is nurtured by unjust oppression." On Negroes: "Nobody will come to boost you up; you must suffer and many of you must die before the victory will be won." On prohibition: "What kind of poem would you get out of a glass of ice-water?" His famous essays, "Why I Am an Agnostic" and "How to Pick a Jury," are included in this remarkable collection. His short stories, "The Breaker Boy" and "Little Louis Epstine," lend a poignant climax to his known sympathy for the underdog. Clarence Darrow was born in Kinsman, Ohio, in 1857. He was a product of the American imagination and its frontier yearning for freedom and democracy. Darrow found that he could best express his energies in the field of law. But he turned to writing as a means of influencing a broader audience. Through his essays and fiction, with their suspender-stretching and urbane mixture of wit, lawyer's logic, satire, and sentiment, Darrow became the attorney for the public conscience. His beliefs remain a part of America's continuing social philosophy, his battles are epics in our politics and sociology, and his courtroom strategies are legal psychology of the highest order. Here in this book is Darrow, the attorney, the philosopher, the dreamer, the practical cogitator, the Quixote who ground the windmills to a crushing stop. His writings are a touchstone for our age of crisis. Verdicts Out of Court brings together for the first time the passion of a lifetime devoted to lonely victories "because I believed the cause was worthwhile." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Seller Inventory # 003598

Bibliographic Details

Title: Clarence Darrow: Verdicts Out of Court [...

Publisher: Quadrangle Books, Chicago, Illinois

Publication Date: 1963

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition