He was the Attorney for the Damned, the Great Defender, the champion of free thought who skewered biblical literalism at the Scopes Monkey Trial and the master ...

In his place is Clarence Darrow (1857-1938), the first superstar lawyer in the United States, perhaps most famous for the "Scopes monkey trial" of 1925, in which he defended a public school instructor ...

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