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Gideon's Trumpet

Name: Gideon's Trumpet
ISBN: 9780679723127

How One Man, a Poor Prisoner, Took His Case to the Supreme Court-and Changed Thelaw of the United States

Anthony Lewis

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Print & ebook · April 23, 1989

Reading lane: Courts & the Judiciary

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.

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Why This Clicks

Law in Human Scale

A fight for legal counsel brings the stakes of the law into sharp focus.

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A true legal history centered on one man's fight for counsel
The human stakes behind a landmark Supreme Court case

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A history of Clarence Earl Gideon's fight for legal counsel
Notes, a table of cases, and an index

Book Details

Authors: Anthony Lewis
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: April 23, 1989
Format: Print & ebook
Theme: Courts & the Judiciary · 20th-Century America
Reading lane: Courts & the Judiciary

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20th-Century America
Legal History
Civil Rights

About This Book

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.