Great Trials of Clarence Darrow The

“Wonderfully evocative… Donald McRae captures the Great Defender in all his complexity.... A joy to read.” — Kevin Boyle National Book Award-winning author of Arc of JusticeAstonishingly vivid. —James Tobin Award-winning author of Ernie Pyle’s WarThe story of the three dramatic trials that resurrected the life and career of America’s most colorful—and controversial—defense attorney: Clarence Darrow. Many books plays and movies have covered Darrow and the trials of Leopold and Loeb John T. Scopes and Ossian Sweet before: Geoffrey Cowan’s The People v. Clarence Darrow; Simon Baatz’s For the Thrill of It; Kevin Boyle’s Arc of Justice; Meyer Levin’s Compulsion and the film adaptation of the same name; Inherit the Wind; but few if any have achieved the intimacy and immediacy of Donald McRae’s The Great Trials of Clarence Darrow.