"Astonishingly vivid." —James Tobin, Award-winning author of The story of the three dramatic trials that resurrected the life and career of America’s most colorful—and controversial—defense attorney: Clarence Darrow. Many books, plays, and movies have covered Darrow and the trials of Leopold and Loeb, John T. Scopes, and Ossian Sweet before: Geoffrey Cowan’s ; Simon Baatz’s ; Kevin Boyle’s ; Meyer Levin’s and the film adaptation of the same name; ; but few, if any, have achieved the intimacy and immediacy of Donald McRae’s .