#ItTakesAllKinds #WithLawyer Still on my TBR. Darrow left the relatively normal career as a railroad lawyer to defend people most at the time would consider undesirables . Most would have heard of him as the lawyer defending John Scopes , the infamous monkey trial , about the teaching of evolution.
pickLoved it. The thing with biographies is that you know the person is going to die at the end, but it‘s still sad when you get to that point in the book. So long, Mr. Darrow. Yours was an interesting ride.
Heading into the final 100 pages. Just about to begin the circus that was the Scopes Trial.
Climbing into bed with Monty and a book. Clarence Darrow led a fascinating life—friend to the labor movement, brilliant in the courtroom, and a participant in some of the most important trials in American history. This biography covers all of that and also doesn‘t shy away from exploring Darrow‘s many flaws. So far, a great read, and nice company on this Saturday night.
pickFarrell tells an honest story of a great man's life--Darrow was indeed "defender of the damned," as Lincoln Steffens said, of the marginalized or outcast. Ahead of his time too--feminist, anti-death penalty, free love advocate, prison abolitionist, anti-fascist, pro-labor, agnostic, pro-science. Also his own worst enemy. Readable; heartbreaking at the end. His memorial today is a bridge in Chicago's Jackson Park where he practiced his speeches.
Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned | 
