"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 Justice
"Astonishingly vivid." --James Tobin, Award-winning author of Ernie
Pyle's War
The 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.