ABSTRACT
The critics of William Moses Kunstler—the flamboyant, controversial attorney who was called “the most hated lawyer in America”—might take note of a comment made by the late Supreme Court Justice Frank Murphy in Bridges v. Wixon. Kunstler first attracted national attention in 1969, when he defended the Chicago Seven, a group of anti-Vietnam War protesters arrested the previous year for their demonstrations at the Democratic National Convention. After the trial, he became a hero of the counterculture, which questioned American values at a time when the country was polarized by issues like civil rights, race relations, and the Vietnam War. Kunstler’s book included an unusually candid preface by collaborator Isenberg. One indisputable fact in the life of William Moses Kunstler is that he gained his fame from representing clients whose socioeconomic backgrounds were vastly different from his own.
