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...CLARENCE DARROW by DAVID W. RINTELS...
...Clarence Darrow represents some of the best America that we can remember -a rugged liberalism long before it was gilded with chic, the common man invested with intellect. In a nation of somewhat disheveled justice, Darrow did genuinely unpopular things as a lawyer from 1878 to 1938. He saved Leopold and Loeb from the death penalty, defended blacks against rape charges, kept the lynch mobs from the Haymarket "conspirators." He was an honest and useful...
Compulsion. I have a friend who can recite giant chunks of Clarence Darrow's summation from the Loeb-Leopold trial--the summation that brought tears to the judge's eyes. All dressed up with his suspenders, I think he'd make a better Clarence Darrow than Orson Welles. Spencer Tracy was better than Welles but still no match for my friend, who in his prime could make high school debate judges cry. They're a lot more insensitive than real ones. But Orson Welles does...
...many years, thinkers like Clarence Darrow and Emma Goldman have recognized the failure of prisons and described them as the natural extension of injustice in society. Most people ignored the issue. In the late 1960s, things began to change. Young prisoners who had been involved in political struggles on the outside increased prisoners' awareness of their need for solidarity. George Jackson's writing and the rebellion at Attica began to increase public awareness...
...have heroes. But if I had to pick one it would be Clarence Darrow--he was above politics...