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YANKEE LAWYER: The Autobiography of Ephraim Tuft-Scribner...
...Ephraim Tutt is one of the few fictitious characters who has ever written his autobiography. Yankee Lawyer is a genial hodgepodge of fact & fiction, includes almost everything a reader needs for a good time: human-interest stories from Mr. Tutt's legal life; anecdotes about Mr. Tutt's nonfictional contemporaries ("Teddy" Roosevelt, Richard Harding Davis, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes); and Mr. Tutt himself, as American as a Stephen Foster song...
Since then Author Train has written almost a hundred Tutt stories. Some of them (says Tutt) have become as familiar to lawyers as folk tales, have been cited from the bench as quasi-legal authority, have helped many a candidate pass his bar examinations. In fact, like Sherlock Holmes, Ephraim Tutt has become more famous than his creator. So by writing Lawyer Tutt's autobiography, Author Train was able to achieve more than by writing (or rewriting) his own (My Day in Court...
Tutt v. the Law. But Ephraim Tutt's autobiography is not only entertainment. Tutt belongs with Uncle Sam, David Harum and Paul Bunyan as a symbol of what Americans think of themselves, how they would like to be. Tutt's autobiography takes the serious reader to the border of one of literature's most fascinating phenomena : the myth, and its meaning in the ethos of a nation...
Author Train's Ephraim Tutt, says Tutt, is not the real Tutt. Train's Tutt, he continues, is not even consistent, changes from story to story, from "mountebank to philosopher, from shyster to philanthropist, from lawbreaker to up holder of the Constitution." The real Tutt is a rebel...