{"product_id":"2200507","title":"The Last Trials of Clarence Darrow","description":"viii, 422 pp. \"Courtrooms have been dramatic settings for larger-than-life figures throughout history, but few have attained the almost mythical status of Clarence Darrow. A legend in his own time, Variety called him \"America's greatest one-man stage draw.\" Here was a man whose flair for showmanship went hand in hand with a fierce intellect; a man whose shaky moral compass \u0026amp; staggering conceit collided at all turns with an unrivaled eloquence \u0026amp; humanism. Darrow had been one of the most revered lawyers in the country, but in 1924 his reputation was still clouded after a narrow escape from a charge of jury tampering in LA. Aged 67 he thought his life \u0026amp; career were almost over, until he was offered an impossible assignment: the defense of the teenage \"thrill killers\" Nathan Leopold \u0026amp; Richard Loeb. He then went on to earn even more international acclaim in two other groundbreaking cases: a classic standoff against Wm Jennings Bryan in the Tennessee Scopes Monkey Trial \u0026amp; the Ossian Sweet murder trial in Detroit. Throughout two crammed years, this lion of the court held the Western world in awe as he tackled these three starkly different, history-making cases, each in turn dubbed \"the Trial of the Century.\" But these trials, important as they were, were not the only events that helped rejuvenate him \u0026amp; seal his courtroom legacy. There was also his enduring relationship with Mary Field Parton, his soulmate, a woman whose role toward the end of his career was larger than many have realized. With new research, including her private journals \u0026amp; letters, The Last Trials of Clarence Darrow is an intimate depiction of this American icon, one of the greatest lawyers the country has ever seen.\" Keywords: LAST TRIALS CLARENCE DARROW DONALD MCRAE BIOGRAPHY LAW LEGAL AMERICAN HISTORY","brand":"William Morrow","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":12595711574086,"sku":"2200507","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1232\/9510\/products\/2200507.jpg?v=1571423158","url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/2200507","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}