Gideons Trumpet, Anthony Lewis
Gideons Trumpet, Anthony Lewis
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Gideon's Trumpet
How One Man, a Poor Prisoner, Took His Case to the Supreme Court-and Changed theLaw of the United States

Author: Anthony Lewis

Narrator: Robertson Dean

Unabridged: 7 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/20/2018

Synopsis

The classic bestseller from a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist that tells the compelling true story of one man's fight for the right to legal counsel for every defendent. 

A history of the landmark case of Clarence Earl Gideon's fight for the right to legal counsel. Notes, table of cases, index. The classic backlist bestseller. More than 800,000 sold since its first pub date of 1964.

About The Author

ANTHONY LEWIS was a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who transformed American legal journalism. He is the author of Gideon's Trumpet which concerned Gideon v. Wainwright, the 1963 decision that guaranteed lawyers to poor defendants charged with serious crimes. His book Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment is an account of New York Times v. Sullivan, the 1964 Supreme Court decision that revolutionized American libel law. Lewis was a New York Times reporter at the Supreme Court from 1957 to 1964 and wrote an Op-Ed column for thirty years called "At Home Abroad" or "Abroad at Home" depending on where he was writing from . He also taught at the Harvard Law School where he was a Lecturer on Law from 1974 to 1989. He has also been the James Madison Visiting Professor at Columbia University. Anthony Lewis died in 2013 at the age of 85.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Russell on November 29, 2007

I read this book before I went to law school. It was supposed to be the inspiring story of how we all came to have the right to an attorney. I thought it was dull and was actually the story of how a florida redneck who was arrested for burglary got in touch with a bunch of high powered attorneys with......more

Goodreads review by Kressel on August 05, 2016

For those who don't know, Gideon v. Wainwright was the landmark Supreme Court case that established the federal requirement for criminal courts to provide defense attorneys for the indigent. In other words, it's the reason we have public defenders today. The case began when Clarence Gideon, a poor wh......more

Goodreads review by Frank on September 07, 2014

After reading this book, I understand why it has become a law-school staple for generations. First, and importantly, it's short, always necessary in book assignments. Second, it provides a concise and solid overview of how the Supreme Court "did its own work" in Brandeis's phrase (down to some now a......more

Goodreads review by ~☆~Autumn on August 03, 2021

4 stars as required reading when I was in college. It was amazing. Date read is a guess.......more

Goodreads review by Catherine on March 21, 2013

I have always been a reader, and whenever possible, I have tried to read what my children are reading. It started out with 'The Hungry Caterpillar', progressed to the Harry Potter series and now I am immersed in British Victorian novels and socio-political classics (which it turns out that I am no b......more

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