LEADER 03653nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910970469603321 005 20251117003522.0 010 $a0-8214-4157-4 035 $a(CKB)1000000000713510 035 $a(OCoLC)228136592 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10116600 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000431900 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11250656 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000431900 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10478161 035 $a(PQKB)10603388 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3026853 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3026853 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10116600 035 $a(BIP)35538346 035 $a(BIP)11343259 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000713510 100 $a20050412d2005 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aClosing arguments $eClarence Darrow on religion, law, and society /$fClarence Darrow ; edited by S.T. Joshi 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAthens, Ohio $cOhio University Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (290 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a0-8214-1632-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 259-263) and index. 327 $aOn philosophy and religion -- On law and crime -- On politics and society -- On Clarence Darrow. 330 $aClosing Arguments: Clarence Darrow on Religion, Law, and Society collects, for the first time, Darrow's thoughts on his three main preoccupations. The effect reveals a carefully conceived philosophy, expressed with delightful pungency and clarity. The provocative content of these writings still challenges us. His thoughts on social issues, especially on the dangers of religious fundamentalism, are uncannily prescient. A dry and even misanthropic humor lightens his essays, and his reflections on himself and his philosophy reveal a quiet dignity at the core of a man better known for provoking Americans during an era of unprecedented tumult. From the wry "Is the Human Race Getting Anywhere," to the scornful "Patriotism," and his elegaic summing up, "At Seventy-Two," Darrow's writing still stimulates and pleases. Darrow, son of a village undertaker and coffinmaker, rose to become one of America's greatest attorneys -and surely its most famous. The Ohio native gained fame for being at the center of momentous trials, including his 1924 defense of Leopold and Loeb and his defense of Darwinian principles in the 1925 Scopes "Monkey Trial." Some have traced Darrow's lifelong campaign against capital punishment to his boyhood terror at seeing a Civil War soldier buried-and no client of Darrow's was ever executed, not even black men who were charged with murder for defending themselves against a white mob. A rebel who always sided intellectually and emotionally with the minority, Darrow remains a figure to contend with sixty-seven years after his death. "Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet," Darrow once said. Closing Arguments demonstrates that, in his case, that statement is true. 606 $aLaw$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 606 $aReligion and law$zUnited States 606 $aLawyers$zUnited States$vBiography 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government 615 0$aLaw$xSocial aspects 615 0$aReligion and law 615 0$aLawyers 676 $a340/.115 700 $aDarrow$b Clarence$f1857-1938.$01867266 701 $aJoshi$b S. T.$f1958-$01855741 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910970469603321 996 $aClosing arguments$94474751 997 $aUNINA