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Gideon's Trumpet - by Anthony Lewis (Paperback)

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  • 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.
  • Edgar Allan Poe Awards (Fact Crime) 1965 1st Winner
  • About the Author: ANTHONY LEWIS was a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who transformed American legal journalism.
  • 288 Pages
  • History, United States

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About the Book



Reprint. Originally published: New York: Random House, 1964.



Book 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.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.05 Inches (H) x 5.19 Inches (W) x .73 Inches (D)
Weight: .68 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: United States
Genre: History
Number of Pages: 288
Publisher: Vintage
Theme: 20th Century
Format: Paperback
Author: Anthony Lewis
Language: English
Street Date: April 23, 1989
TCIN: 1003268681
UPC: 9780679723127
Item Number (DPCI): 247-04-7203
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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