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Wonderfully evocative Donald McRae captures the Great Defender in all his complexity.... A joy to read. Kevin Boyle, National Book Award-winning author of Arc of Justice Astonishingly vivid. James Tobin, Award-winning author of Ernie Pyles War The story of the three dramatic trials that resurrected the life and career of Americas most colorfuland controversialdefense attorney Clarence Darrow. Many books, plays, and movies have covered Darrow and the trials of Leopold and Loeb, John T. Scopes, and Ossian Sweet before Geoffrey Cowans The People v. Clarence Darrow Simon Baatzs For the Thrill of It Kevin Boyles Arc of Justice Meyer Levins Compulsion and the film adaptation of the same name Inherit the Wind but few, if any, have achieved the intimacy and immediacy of Donald McRaes The Great Trials of Clarence Darrow.