The Lost Frontier: Images and Narrative
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.