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===Publications=== ====Non-fiction==== {{external media| float = right| video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?300828-1/clarence-darrow-attorney-damned Presentation by John Farrell on ''Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned'', July 14, 2011], [[C-SPAN]]| video2 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?308236-4/clarence-darrow-attorney-damned Presentation by Farrell on ''Clarence Darrow'', September 23, 2012], [[C-SPAN]]}} * "Attorney for the Damned" (Arthur Weinberg, ed), published by University of Chicago Press in 2012; Simon and Schuster in 1957; provides Darrow's most influential summations and includes scene-setting explanations and comprehensive notes; on NYT best seller list 19 weeks. * ''Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned'' by [http://www.jafarrell.com John A. Farrell], published by Doubleday in June 2011; includes new material opened to the public in June 2010 by the University of Minnesota Law Library through the [https://web.archive.org/web/20120419091140/http://darrow.law.umn.edu/ Clarence Darrow Digital Collection] * ''Arc of Justice'' (Owl Books, 2004) by Kevin Boyle; in-depth look at the Ossian Sweet trial * ''Clarence Darrow for the Defense'', a biography by historical novelist [[Irving Stone]] * ''The People v. Clarence Darrow'' ({{ISBN|978-0-8129-2179-3}}) by Geoffrey Cowan; the history of the California criminal case against Darrow for attempting to bribe a juror while defending the McNamara brothers, two labor organizers accused of planting a bomb which destroyed the printing plant of the ''Los Angeles Times'' and killed 21 workers. * "Is Religion Necessary" (Haldeman-Julius Publications); a transcript of the debate between Clarence Darrow and Rev. Robert MacGovern, 1931. ====Fiction==== * ''Compulsion'', a 1956 novel by [[Meyer Levin]], is a dramatic retelling of the Leopold and Loeb case in which Darrow served as the basis for the character of Jonathan Wilk. The novel was adapted as a [[Compulsion (1959 film)|film of the same name]] in 1959 starring [[Orson Welles]] as Wilk. Welles, whose plea to the judge for mercy for his clients was the longest [[monologue]] ever committed to film at the time, shared the Best Actor award with co-stars [[Bradford Dillman]] and [[Dean Stockwell]] at that year's [[Cannes Film Festival]]. * ''Damned in Paradise'', a 1996 Nate Heller novel by [[Max Allan Collins]], renders a fictionalized account of the Massie Trial. * ''[[The Angel of Darkness]]'', a 1997 novel by [[Caleb Carr]], features Darrow in a supporting role.
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