Clarence Darrow (1857–1938)
Autor von Attorney for the Damned
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Werke von Clarence Darrow
Crime & Criminals: Address To The Prisoners In The Cook County Jail & Other Writings On Crime & Punishment (1975) 11 Exemplare
The plea of Clarence Darrow, August 22nd, 23rd & 25th, MCMXXIII, in defense of Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr., on (1926) 5 Exemplare
Argument of Clarence Darrow in the case of the Communist labor party in the Criminal Court, Chicago (2010) 3 Exemplare
Why I Am an Agnostic: Historic Reprint of an Address Delivered in 1932 at Orchestra Hall, Chicago (2010) 3 Exemplare
Bryan And Darrow At Dayton: The Record And Documents Of The Bible-Evolution Trial (2007) 2 Exemplare
Clarence Darrow's cross-examination of William Jennings Bryan in Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes (Classics of the… (1987) 2 Exemplare
The Rationalism of Clarence Darrow 1 Exemplar
The Wisdom of Clarence Darrow 1 Exemplar
Summation in the Sweet Case (in Law as Lit) 1 Exemplar
Clarence Darrow Verdicts Out of Court 1 Exemplar
The Open Shop (Little Blue Book #1425) 1 Exemplar
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 1 Exemplar
Essays 1 Exemplar
What Life Means to Me at Seventy-two 1 Exemplar
Clarence Darrow on Religion: Facing Life Fearlessly, Absurdities of the Bible, Why I am an Agnostic (Forgotten Books) (2007) 1 Exemplar
Clarence Darrow on the death penalty 1 Exemplar
The Myth of the Soul 1 Exemplar
Zugehörige Werke
Die Rubaijat von Omar Khayam, begleitet von Persischen Miniaturen (1120) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben — 5,197 Exemplare
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Mitwirkender — 132 Exemplare
The world of law; a treasury of great writing about and in the law, short stories, plays, essays, accounts, letters,… (1960) — Mitwirkender — 54 Exemplare
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- Geburtstag
- 1857-04-18
- Todestag
- 1938-03-13
- Begräbnisort
- ashes scattered in Jackson Park Lagoon, Chicago, Illinois, uSA
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Farmdale, Kinsman Township, Ohio, USA
- Sterbeort
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Todesursache
- cancer
- Wohnorte
- Kinsman Township, Ohio, USA
Youngstown, Ohio, USA
Ashtabula, Ohio, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA - Ausbildung
- Allegheny College
University of Michigan - Berufe
- lawyer
- Beziehungen
- Masters, Edgar Lee (law partner)
- Organisationen
- American Civil Liberties Union
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- ISBNs
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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.… (mehr)