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The Story of My Life
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by Clarence Darrow
New introduction
by Alan M. Dershowitz
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Price: $25.00
(Includes shipping and handling)
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Description
In The Story of My Life, Clarence Darrow recounts, and reflects on, more than
fifty years as a corporate, labor, and criminal lawyer, including the most
celebrated and notorious cases of his day: establishing the legal right of a
union to strike in the Woodworkers' Conspiracy Case; exposing, on behalf of
the United Mine Workers, the shocking conditions in the mines and the
widespread use of child labor; defending Leopold and Loeb in the Chicago
"thrill" murder case; defending a teacher's right to present the Darwinian
theory of evolution in the famous Scopes trial; fighting racial hatred in the
Sweet anti-Negro and the Scottsboro cases; and much more.
Written in his disarming, conversational style, and full of refreshingly relevant
views on capital punishment, civil liberties, and the judicial system, Darrow's
autobiography is a fitting final summation of a remarkable life.
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Reviews
”Dramatic, frank and unpretentious. [Darrow] is well worth any intelligent
person’s cultivating; indeed he would be worthwhile if only for his simple and
often moving prose.”
— New York Times
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"Darrow's cases have become the stuff of legend, drama, and film. But the
stories are fascinating—an important part of 20th-century Americana.
Whether legend, history, or a combination thereof, The Story of My Life is still
must reading for all citizens who care about liberties and our legal system."
— Alan M. Dershowitz
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