you don't want darrow. as only a poet can put it and i will probably get it wrong, he is going to saying the nra which will die and that is exactly what happened. masters was right. others things he said in the letter were not right. maybe oversold the case. but darrow did fanged the nra and give birth to what scholars call the second new deal. but darrow is not a libertarian. he believed government had an important role. in improving the lives of working people. context is very important. his experience with the federal government going back to the 1880s was one in which there was trouble or a fight over working people, which side of the federal government to come in on. they send in the national guard and start shooting workers and the strike is over. everyone went back to work. darrow witnessed how the federal government was and that always an ally of average people. when he saw the new deal perhaps creating cartels answered industries like the auto industry he was wary of that. that doesn't make him a l

the book is called gary sini"cle darrow: attorney for the damned". clarence darrow was who? >> he was probably america's greatest or grandest defense lawyer. he is familiar to most people as henry drummer. for lawyers, you do not graduate with out having someone sang we have our own little clarence darrow in the family. tavis: what made him such a famous defender of defendants? >> he groped in rural northeast ohio. the other thing is he had this amazing sense of empathy and compassion. when given the choice between taking one route and making a lot of money and joining corporate america or doing something like defending an indigent person who is really stuck, clarence darrow came on the side of the damned. tavis: i read a comment made to somebody that struck me. he made the point and i can empathize. he made the point that you were reticent about even doing the research and a book about him because he was a hero of yours and there is always that danger. >> that is my job. tavis: there is always that danger in coming across stuff about your hero that you do not want to confro

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