Clarence Darrow (1857–1938)
Autor/a de Attorney for the Damned
Sobre l'autor
Crèdit de la imatge: Library of Congress
Obres de Clarence Darrow
Crime & Criminals: Address To The Prisoners In The Cook County Jail & Other Writings On Crime & Punishment (1975) 11 exemplars
The plea of Clarence Darrow, August 22nd, 23rd & 25th, MCMXXIII, in defense of Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr., on (1926) 5 exemplars
Argument of Clarence Darrow in the case of the Communist labor party in the Criminal Court, Chicago (2010) 3 exemplars
Why I Am an Agnostic: Historic Reprint of an Address Delivered in 1932 at Orchestra Hall, Chicago (2010) 3 exemplars
Bryan And Darrow At Dayton: The Record And Documents Of The Bible-Evolution Trial (2007) 2 exemplars
Clarence Darrow's cross-examination of William Jennings Bryan in Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes (Classics of the… (1987) 2 exemplars
The Rationalism of Clarence Darrow 1 exemplars
The Wisdom of Clarence Darrow 1 exemplars
Summation in the Sweet Case (in Law as Lit) 1 exemplars
Clarence Darrow Verdicts Out of Court 1 exemplars
Crime Its Cause And Treatment - Clarence Darrow 1 exemplars
The Open Shop (Little Blue Book #1425) 1 exemplars
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 1 exemplars
Essays 1 exemplars
What Life Means to Me at Seventy-two 1 exemplars
Clarence Darrow on Religion: Facing Life Fearlessly, Absurdities of the Bible, Why I am an Agnostic (Forgotten Books) (2007) 1 exemplars
Clarence Darrow on the death penalty 1 exemplars
The Myth of the Soul 1 exemplars
Obres associades
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Col·laborador — 131 exemplars
The world of law; a treasury of great writing about and in the law, short stories, plays, essays, accounts, letters,… (1960) — Col·laborador — 54 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1857-04-18
- Data de defunció
- 1938-03-13
- Lloc d'enterrament
- ashes scattered in Jackson Park Lagoon, Chicago, Illinois, uSA
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Farmdale, Kinsman Township, Ohio, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Causa de la mort
- cancer
- Llocs de residència
- Kinsman Township, Ohio, USA
Youngstown, Ohio, USA
Ashtabula, Ohio, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA - Educació
- Allegheny College
University of Michigan - Professions
- lawyer
- Relacions
- Masters, Edgar Lee (law partner)
- Organitzacions
- American Civil Liberties Union
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 53
- També de
- 6
- Membres
- 610
- Popularitat
- #41,203
- Valoració
- 3.9
- Ressenyes
- 6
- ISBN
- 90
- Llengües
- 1
- Preferit
- 2
On war:
Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man. Nothing can be heard in the cannon’s roar but the voice of might. All thee safeguards laboriously built to preserve individual freedom and foster men’s welfare are blown to pieces with shot and shell.
Darrow’s recounting of the Scopes trial is amazing, as evidenced by his description of William Jennings Bryant (who at various points Darrow backed for president):
Mr. Bryan was the logical man to prosecute the case. He had not been inside a courtroom for forty years, but that made no difference, for he did not represent a real case; he represented religion, and in this he was the idol of all Morondom. His scientific attitude was epigrammatically stated in various speeches and interviews regarding what he did not know about science. He said that he was “not so much interested in the age of rocks as in the Rock of Ages.”
Regarding the enormous amount of letters he received during the Scopes Trial:
The number of people on the borderline of insanity in a big country is simply appalling, and these seem especially addicted to believing themselves saviors and prophets. It takes only a slight stimulus to throw them completely off their balance.
On judgment and jury selection:
No one ever judges any one else without finding him guilty, no one ever understands another without being in sympathy with him. A person who can understand can comprehend why, and that leaves no field for condemning.… (més)