#paperback #thrillkiller #clarencedarrow 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New York

The Amazing Crime and Trial of Leopold and Loeb

#civilrights #blacklivesmatter #Newyorktimesnotablebook #detroit #osiansweet #socialjustice #1920s #greatmigration #clarencedarrow #africanamericans 

Ohio

A saga of race, civil rights, and murder in the Jazz Age

An electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggle

In 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl of jazz and speakeasies, assembly lines and fistfights. The advent of automobiles had brought workers from around the globe to compete for manufacturing jobs, and tensions often flared with the KKK in ascendance and violence rising. Ossian Sweet, a proud Negro doctor-grandson of a slave-had made the long climb from the ghetto to a home of his own in a previously all-white neighborhood. Yet just after his arrival, a mob gathered outside his house; suddenly,shots rang out: Sweet, or one of his defenders, had accidentally killed one of the whites threatening their lives and homes.

And so it began-a chain of events that brought America's greatest attorney, Clarence Darrow, into the fray and transformed Sweet into a controversial symbol of equality. Historian Kevin Boyle weaves the police investigation and courtroom drama of Sweet's murder trial into an unforgettable tapestry of narrative history that documents the volatile America of the 1920s and movingly re-creates the Sweet family's journey from slavery through the Great Migration to the middle class. Ossian Sweet'sstory, so richly and poignantly captured here, is an epic tale of one man trapped by the battles of his era's changing times.

Arc of Justiceis the winner of the 2004 National Book Award for Nonfiction.

Arc of Justice

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New Jersey

Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom

"While there has been much written about Clarence Darrow, nothing gives quite the full flavour of the man as do these addresses. Here is Darrow in the raw - as fresh as the day he spoke. These pages contain for the most part addresses which Darrow delivered to juries in criminal cases. There are in addition speeches on controversial people and subjects. Throughout each of them runs a common thread - his antagonism toward bigotry, prejudice, ignorance, and hate." -- from the Foreword by Justice William O. Douglas.

Maureen McKernan

The Amazing Crime and Trial of Leopold and Loeb

Kevin Boyle

Arc of Justice

Clarence Darrow, Justice William O. Douglas

Attorney for the Damned