Clarence Darrow (1857–1938)
Autor(a) de Attorney for the Damned
About the Author
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Obras de Clarence Darrow
Crime & Criminals: Address To The Prisoners In The Cook County Jail & Other Writings On Crime & Punishment (1975) 11 cópias
The plea of Clarence Darrow, August 22nd, 23rd & 25th, MCMXXIII, in defense of Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr., on (1926) 5 cópias
Argument of Clarence Darrow in the case of the Communist labor party in the Criminal Court, Chicago (2010) 3 cópias
Why I Am an Agnostic: Historic Reprint of an Address Delivered in 1932 at Orchestra Hall, Chicago (2010) 3 cópias
Clarence Darrow's cross-examination of William Jennings Bryan in Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes (Classics of the… (1987) 2 cópias
The Rationalism of Clarence Darrow 1 exemplar(es)
The Wisdom of Clarence Darrow 1 exemplar(es)
Summation in the Sweet Case (in Law as Lit) 1 exemplar(es)
Clarence Darrow Verdicts Out of Court 1 exemplar(es)
Crime Its Cause And Treatment - Clarence Darrow 1 exemplar(es)
The Famous Examination of Bryan at the Scopes Evolution Trial (Little Blue Book #1424) 1 exemplar(es)
The Open Shop (Little Blue Book #1425) 1 exemplar(es)
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 1 exemplar(es)
Essays 1 exemplar(es)
What Life Means to Me at Seventy-two 1 exemplar(es)
Clarence Darrow on Religion: Facing Life Fearlessly, Absurdities of the Bible, Why I am an Agnostic (Forgotten Books) (2007) 1 exemplar(es)
Clarence Darrow on the death penalty 1 exemplar(es)
In memory of John P. Altgeld; address at the funeral 1 exemplar(es)
The Myth of the Soul 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contribuinte — 131 cópias
The world of law; a treasury of great writing about and in the law, short stories, plays, essays, accounts, letters,… (1960) — Contribuinte — 54 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1857-04-18
- Data de falecimento
- 1938-03-13
- Local de enterro
- ashes scattered in Jackson Park Lagoon, Chicago, Illinois, uSA
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Farmdale, Kinsman Township, Ohio, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Causa da morte
- cancer
- Locais de residência
- Kinsman Township, Ohio, USA
Youngstown, Ohio, USA
Ashtabula, Ohio, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA - Educação
- Allegheny College
University of Michigan - Ocupação
- lawyer
- Relacionamentos
- Masters, Edgar Lee (law partner)
- Organizações
- American Civil Liberties Union
Membros
Resenhas
Listas
Prêmios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 53
- Also by
- 6
- Membros
- 610
- Popularidade
- #41,203
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Resenhas
- 6
- ISBNs
- 90
- Idiomas
- 1
- Favorito
- 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.… (mais)