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Gideon's Trumpet by Anthony Lewis

Gideon's Trumpet

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

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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Who it’s for
A fight for legal counsel brings the stakes of the law into sharp focus.
Themes
Right to legal counsel, Landmark legal case
Genres
Constitutional Law, Civil Rights, Lawyers & Judges

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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.

Law in Human Scale

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

Come here for

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

Expect

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

Where it sits

Constitutional Law36%
Lawyers & Judges35%
Civil Rights32%

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Publisher categories

  • 20th-Century America
  • Legal History
  • Civil Rights
Authors
Anthony Lewis
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published
April 23, 1989
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Right to legal counsel · Landmark legal case
Reading lane
20th-Century America