the cynic is humbled throat the journalist lincoln steffens, the man that last sees. he faces pleased please misunderstand and he won a not guilty verdict in his first trial and a hung jury in the next. from the ashes of that ordeal darrow boards the grandest of america's legal careers as the champion of personal liberty and defender of the underdog and he became said lincoln steffens the attorney for the. he had no choice. broken disgrace to return to chicago and he took the cases that others would not touch. there was isaac on the black man accused of the rape and murder of of young whiteners in common is an anarchist snared in a reactionary further of world war i and the red scare. rank lloyd wright in the cause of sexual freedom and the architect was pursued by federal prosecutors for violating the man act, which made it a crime for unmarried couples to cross-state lines. today we recall darrow's plea against the death penalty for the lives of nathan leopold and richard lowe the killers who ordered a chicago boy to demonstrate their intellectual superiority by com

lincoln steffens and earl rogers are the guys that i discovered in the research for this book. earl rogers was, if you can believe a more cynical than clarence darrow. he was also an alcoholic, but he was probably a greater trial lawyer even than darrow that rogers to cases and got the guys found innocent. darrow was good at taking the hopeless cases, the attorney for the damned, saving them from the hanging of the electric chair. but he never had the record of not guilty verdict that role rogers did in southern california. and it was indication of darrow's desperation because earl rogers was with the powers at the in los angeles, he was and how union. it's an indication of spiegel's the foot desperation when he went out he went out and hired earl rogers to defend him and his defense of clarence clarencw is amazing remember the transcript in los angeles and interestingly enough law library is across the street from where the "los angeles times" was bombed. i would look out the window and see where this has happened. but rogers idea was he was just going to raise so many red her