Word: gideon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lewis Gideon's Trumpet...
...GIDEON'S TRUMPET, by Anthony Lewis...
...lively account of Clarence Earl Gideon, the jailhouse lawyer who changed the law of the land, is used to animate a complex subject-the changing philosophy of the U.S. Supreme Court in the past quarter-century...
...GIDEON'S TRUMPET, by Anthony Lewis. A lively account of Clarence Earl Gideon, the jailhouse lawyer who changed the Jaw of the land, is used to animate a complex subject-the changing philosophy of the U.S. Supreme Court in the last quarter century...
Unlikely Figure. Gideon himself hardly seems at first glance to be the figure of a man of destiny: gaunt, cantankerous, half-educated, a petty gambler and four-times-convicted felon. Yet as one lawyer remarked, "It has become almost axiomatic that the great rights which are secured for all of us by the Bill of Rights are constantly tested and retested in the courts by the people who live in the bottom of society's barrel." Gideon is a classic type of the cussedly independent man. His 22-page letter from jail (Lewis quotes it in full) to Washington...