Clarence Darrow for the Defense

Irving Stone

Doubleday, Doran, Incorporated, 1941 - Biography - 570 pages

"First edition." "Sources": pages 521-544. "Selected bibliography": pages 545-548.

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There is a three page "Personal Contributors to this Biography. Stone interviewed or used primary sources from a wide group of people. Unlike The Source, his biography of Darwin, this is nonfiction ...

Contents

• LAWYER COMES OF AGE I: 1
• AL GETS A LIBERAL EDUCATION: 35
• SPRINKLES SALT ON THE TAIL OF TRUTH: 67

About the author

Irving Stone was born Irving Tenenbaum in San Francisco, California on July 14, 1903. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1923 and a master's degree from the University of Southern California in 1924. He was known for his historically accurate fictionalized biographies. His first book, Lust for Life, was published in 1934. His other works include Clarence Darrow for the Defense, They Also Ran, Immortal Wife, President's Lady, Love Is Eternal, The Agony and the Ecstasy, The Passions of the Mind, and The Origin. He won a Western Spur Award for Men to Match My Mountains. He died on August 26, 1989 at the age of 86.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Clarence Darrow for the Defense
• Author: Irving Stone
• Publisher: Doubleday, Doran, Incorporated, 1941
• Original from: the University of Virginia
• Digitized: May 5, 2008
• ISBN: 0385040733, 9780385040730
• Length: 570 pages