Attorney for the damned
Subtitle: Clarence Darrow in the courtroom
By: Clarence Darrow ; edited and with notes by Arthur Weinberg ; foreword by Justice William O. Douglas
Contributors: Weinberg, Arthur, 1915-1989
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 552
ISBN-13: 9780226136509
Subjects: Forensic orations; Trials
Notes: Originally published: New York : Simon and Schuster, 1957.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Against vengeance: Crime and criminals; title: Address, Chicago, 1902: inmates of county jail in Chicago get a lecture on revolutionary theories of crime; title: The crime of compulsion; title: Leopold and Loeb, Chicago, 1924: teen-age sons of two millionaires attempt the perfect crime: kidnaping and murder; title: Is capital punishment a wise policy?; title: Debate, New York, 1924: Darrow debates Judge Talley who challenged Darrow's views on crime and capital punishment; title: The "unwritten law"; title: The Massie case, Honolulu, 1932: a strange and puzzling case, a study of psychology, kidnaping and murder because of honor; title: Against prejudice: Freedom knows no limits; title: The communist trial, Chicago, 1920: twenty members of the Communist Labor Party are charged with "conspiracy to advocate the overthrow of the government by force"; title: You can't teach that!; title: The Scopes evolution case, Dayton, Tennessee, 1925: Darrow meets William Jennings; title: Bryan in the famous "monkey trial"; title: You can't live there!; title: The Sweet case, Detroit, 1926: a negro family moves into a white neighborhood, a mob attempts to get them to move, one of the mob is killed, Dr. Sweet and friends are indicted for murder; title: Against privilege: Somewhere there is a conspiracy; title: The Kidd case, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, 1898: Kidd, a union organizer, is charged with conspiracy, growing out of a strike in the large sash-and-door factory in Oshkosh; title: Strike, arbitration; title: Anthracite miners, Scranton and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1903: Darrow represents the Untied Mine Workers' union before President Theodore Roosevelt's Anthracite Miner Commission, investigating conditions in the mines; title: A governor is murdered; title: Steve Adams, Wallace, Idaho, 1907; Haywood, Moyer and Pettibone, Boise, Idaho: Steve Adams, the prologue to the Haywood case; Haywood, first of three union leaders tried for the murder of ex-governor Steunenberg; the confession of Harry Orchard and his story; title: For justice: They tried to get me; title: Darrow in his own defense, Los Angeles, 1912: Darrow is indicted and tried for attempted bribe of a juror in the McNamara case; he accuses his enemies as conspirators against his freedom; title: John Brown 1800-1859: "one of the purest and bravest and highest-minded patriots of any age"; title: John Peter Altgeld 1847-1902: "a lover of his fellow-men".