ABSTRACT
Clarence Seward Darrow, the most famous courtroom lawyer in the United States, made a striking appearance in court. Two of his cases—the Leopold-Loeb case and the Scopes “monkey trial”—were among the most famous trials of the century. In spite of his reputation as the “Defender of the Damned,” he had a public career that was marked by three distinct stages. First, he represented the city of Chicago and large corporations from 1888 to 1894. Second, he took up the cause of trade union leaders from 1894 to 1911. Third, he became a criminal defense attorney in the period after 1912 until his death in 1938. It is equally surprising to realize that Darrow periodically dreamed of leaving the law to become a writer. Although he never realized this dream, his literary outpourings include an autobiographical novel, Farmington, seven other books, and hundreds of essays and short stories in both mass-circulation magazines and obscure journals.
