Clarence Darrow (1857–1938)
Forfatter af Attorney for the Damned
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Værker af Clarence Darrow
Crime & Criminals: Address To The Prisoners In The Cook County Jail & Other Writings On Crime & Punishment (1975) 11 eksemplarer
The plea of Clarence Darrow, August 22nd, 23rd & 25th, MCMXXIII, in defense of Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr., on (1926) 5 eksemplarer
Argument of Clarence Darrow in the case of the Communist labor party in the Criminal Court, Chicago (2010) 3 eksemplarer
Why I Am an Agnostic: Historic Reprint of an Address Delivered in 1932 at Orchestra Hall, Chicago (2010) 3 eksemplarer
Is civilization a failure?: Debate, affirmative, Clarence S. Darrow, negative, Prof. Frederick Starr : chairman, Arthur 2 eksemplarer
Can the individual control his conduct? : is man a free agent or is he the slave of his biological equipment? 2 eksemplarer
Bryan And Darrow At Dayton: The Record And Documents Of The Bible-Evolution Trial (2007) 2 eksemplarer
Clarence Darrow's cross-examination of William Jennings Bryan in Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes (Classics of the… (1987) 2 eksemplarer
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 1 eksemplar
Clarence Darrow Verdicts Out of Court 1 eksemplar
Attorney for the damned, edited and with notes by Arthur Weinberg. Foreword by William O. Douglas 1 eksemplar
Crime Its Cause And Treatment - Clarence Darrow 1 eksemplar
The Open Shop (Little Blue Book #1425) 1 eksemplar
Clarence Darrow on the death penalty 1 eksemplar
Essays 1 eksemplar
What Life Means to Me at Seventy-two 1 eksemplar
Clarence Darrow on Religion: Facing Life Fearlessly, Absurdities of the Bible, Why I am an Agnostic (Forgotten Books) (2007) 1 eksemplar
The Rationalism of Clarence Darrow 1 eksemplar
The Wisdom of Clarence Darrow 1 eksemplar
Summation in the Sweet Case (in Law as Lit) 1 eksemplar
The Myth of the Soul 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Bidragyder — 133 eksemplarer
The world of law; a treasury of great writing about and in the law, short stories, plays, essays, accounts, letters,… (1960) — Bidragyder — 54 eksemplarer
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- Fødselsdato
- 1857-04-18
- Dødsdag
- 1938-03-13
- Begravelsessted
- ashes scattered in Jackson Park Lagoon, Chicago, Illinois, uSA
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Farmdale, Kinsman Township, Ohio, USA
- Dødssted
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Dødsårsag
- cancer
- Bopæl
- Kinsman Township, Ohio, USA
Youngstown, Ohio, USA
Ashtabula, Ohio, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA - Uddannelse
- Allegheny College
University of Michigan - Erhverv
- lawyer
- Relationer
- Masters, Edgar Lee (law partner)
- Organisationer
- American Civil Liberties Union
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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.… (mere)