clarence darrow goes there for $5,000 for one year. he does to trials and gets his hung jury in one and the naacp had no expectations that would win. he wins the second one. again, for almost nothing financially and goes home that summer and has a heart attack from the strain. that says to me about the quality of the man. tavis: his greatest work is after his fall. he falls and he rises again. is the rise only possible because of the fall? is the -- is he a better man for the resurrection? >> it was an act of redemption. he was definitely a better man. his friend said that the man that blasts now has seen his soul and is a different person. when he went back to chicago he was somewhat more hollow and some of more whole. want to bribe a jury? >> he hated to lose a defendant and they were facing the death penalty and he justified in his mind especially as he looked and saw all the tricks the prosecution was playing that he could match them. and so to save their lives, desperate to help organized labor in america and help the movement and

that is the kind of friend that clarence darrow had. when the labor movement -- when his wife--he and his wife were not getting along, darrow is reminded what george's life and career and life and politics really mean. he has been fighting for people like george and they came to help him and he recovers out of that depression. he almost killed himself in los angeles. he mounted a spirited defense against the prosecution which he argued and i tend to agree was politically motivated. >> further on, looking at the arc of his life, you would think from the politics he did as owls and was heavily into the democratic party politics at he would support the new deal but he was critical of fdr. it turned out to be very critical of the administration. this is another paradoxical display. if you find a unified theory of his life, why don't you talk about that? >> i am halfway through researching for a unifying theory. in 1934, franklin roosevelt has run into political trouble with his anti depression agency which is the national recovery administra

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