Clarence Darrow: The Creation of an American Myth

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Copyright Acknowledgments v
• Contents vii
• Series Foreword ix
• Foreword xiii
• I Clarence Darrow 1
• Introduction 8
• 1: The Making of A Nonconformist 11
• 2: Schoolmaster of the Courtroom 29
• 3: The Old Lion 61
• Educating the Masses: Darrow in Tennessee 85
• 5: Speaking for the Poor and Weak 113
• 6: Verdicts Out of Court 141
• Ii Collected Speeches 153B
• Speech in Self-Defense Los Angeles, 1912 155
• Speech in Defense of Leopold and Loeb Chicago, 1924 167

• Title Page iii
• Copyright Acknowledgments v
• Contents vii
• Series Foreword ix
• Foreword xiii
• I Clarence Darrow 1
• Introduction 8
• 1: The Making of A Nonconformist 11
• 2: Schoolmaster of the Courtroom 29
• 3: The Old Lion 61
• Educating the Masses: Darrow in Tennessee 85
• 5: Speaking for the Poor and Weak 113
• 6: Verdicts Out of Court 141
• Ii Collected Speeches 153B
• Speech in Self-Defense Los Angeles, 1912 155
• Speech in Defense of Leopold and Loeb Chicago, 1924 167
• Speech at Scopes Trial - Dayton, Tennessee, 1925 199
• Speech at Sweet Trial - Detroit, 1926 219
• Speech at Massie Trial Honolulu 1932 253
• Eulogy of John P. Altgeld Chicago, 1902 267
• Address to Prisoners in Cook County Jail Chicago, 1902 271
• Chronology of Speeches 285
• Bibliography 297
• Index 325
• About the Author 329
• Great American Orators 331