Attorney for the damned / by Clarence Darrow; edited by Arthur Weinberg; foreword by Justice William O. Douglas.

"Clarence Darrow in his own words"--Spine.

Includes bibliogr. and index

Cont.: Part One. Against vengeance. Crime and criminals : address, Chicago, 1902 : inmates of County Jail in Chicago get a lecture on revolutionary theories of crime -- Crime of compulsion : Leopold and Loeb, Chicago, 1924 : teenage-sons of two millionaires attempt the perfect crime--kidnapping and murder -- Is capital punishment a wise policy? : debate, New York, 1924 : Darrow debates Judge Talley, who challenged Darrow's view on crime and capital punishment -- "Unwritten Law" : the Massie case, Honolulu, 1932 : a strange and puzzling case, a study of psychology; kidnapping and murder because of honor -- Part Two. Against prejudice. Freedom knows no limits : the Communist trial, Chicago, 1920 : twenty members of the Communist Labor party are charged with "conspiracy to advocate the overthrow of the government by force" -- You can't teach that! : the Scopes evolution case, Dayton, Tennessee, 1925 : Darrow meets William Jennings Bryan in the famous "Monkey Trial" -- You can't live there! : the Sweet case, Detroit, 1926 : a Negro family moves into a white neighborhood; a mob attempts to get them to move; one of the mob is killed; Dr. Sweet and friends are indicted for murder -- Part Three. Against privilege. Somewhere this is a conspiracy : the Kidd case, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, 1898 : Kidd, a union organizer, is charged with conspiracy, growing out of a strike in the large sash-and-door factory in Oshkosh -- Strike, Arbitration : Anthracite miners, Scranton and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1903 : Darrow represents the United Mine Workers' union before Theodore Roosevelt's Anthracite Miner Commission, investigating conditions in the mines -- Governor is murdered : Steve Adams, Wallace, Idaho, 1907; Haywood, Moyer and Pettibone, Boise, Idaho, 1907 : Steve Adams, the prologue to the Haywood case; Haywood, first of three union leaders tried for the murder of ex-Governor Steunenberg; the confession of Harry Orchard and his s