Edition |
First edition. |
Description |
xii, 306 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Summary |
Historian Andrew E. Kersten narrates the complete life of America's most legendary lawyer and the struggle that defined it, the fight for the American traditions of individualism, freedom, and liberty in the face of the country's inexorable march toward modernity. Going well beyond the familiar story of the socially conscious lawyer and drawing upon new archival records, Kersten shows Darrow as early modernity's greatest iconoclast. What defined Darrow was his response to the rising interference by corporations and government in ordinary working Americans' lives: he zealously dedicated himself to smashing the structures and systems of social control everywhere he went. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-290) and index. |
Subject |
Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938.
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Lawyers -- United States -- Biography.
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ISBN |
9780809094868 hardback $30.00 |
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080909486X hardback |
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