Suchergebnisse

"Clarence Darrow is best remembered for his individual cases, whether defending the thrill killers Leopold and Loeb or John Scopes's right to teach evolution in the classroom. In the first full-length biography of Darrow in decades, the historian Andrew E. Kersten narrates the complete life of America's most legendary lawyer and the struggle that defined it, the fight for the American traditions of individualism, freedom, and liberty in the face of the country's inexorable march toward modernity. Prior biographers have all sought to shoehorn Darrow, born in 1857, into a single political party or cause. But his politics do not define his career or enduring importance. Going well beyond the familiar story of the socially conscious lawyer and drawing upon new archival records, Kersten shows Darrow as early modernity's greatest iconoclast. What defined Darrow was his response to the rising interference by corporations and government in ordinary working Americans' lives: he zealously dedicated himself to smashing the structures and systems of social control everywhere he went. During a period of enormous transformations encompassing the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, Darrow fought fiercely to preserve individual choice as an ever more corporate America sought to restrict it"--Provided by publisher

Machine generated contents note: Part I: The State and Social Groups -- 1. Much More than an Outpost: The Military Post in the -- Trans-Mississippi West -- Frank N. Schubert -- 2. For Adults Only: The Anti-Child Marriage Campaign and Its -- Legacy -- Kriste Lindenmeyer -- 3. The Negro Service Committee and African-American Soldiers -- Nina Mjagkij -- 4. Fighting for Indian Artisans: John Collier, Ren6 d'Harnoncourt, -- and the Indian Arts and Crafts Board -- Susan Labry Meyn -- 5. Joseph A. Padway and the Open Shop Movement During World -- War II -- Andrew E. Kersten -- 6. Politics, Patriotism, and the State: The Fight Over the Soldier Vote, -- 1942-1944 -- Michael Anderson -- Part II: The State and Political Imagination -- 7. Eyes on a Different Prize: Federal Oversight of Civil Rights -- Memory, 1939-1967 -- Richard A. Reiman -- 8. April 12, 1945: The Other Day That Lives in Infamy -- Robert E. Miller -- 9. The American Centrifuge: Ethnicity in the United States at the -- End of the Century -- Rudolph J. Vecoli -- Index -- About the Contributors

The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters -- Labor leader at large -- Randolph speaks his mind, 1919-1967 -- Randolph's views on politics in the United States -- The March on Washington movement and the Fair Employment Practice Committee -- Making and witnessing history in the civil rights movement -- Randolph, war, and the fight to desegregate the United States military -- A. Philip Randolph on international affairs