Gideon's Trumpet
How One Man, a Poor Prisoner, Took His Case to the Supreme Court-and Changed theLaw of the United States
$27.55
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
23 April 1989
Summary
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 defendant.
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 publication date of 1964.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780679723127 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0679723129 |
| Author: | Anthony Lewis |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 23 April 1989 |
| Weight: | 238g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 132mm x 201mm |
| Series: | Vintage |
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Anthony Lewis
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 Harvard Law School, where he was a Lecturer on Law from 1974 to 1989. He also served as the James Madison Visiting Professor at Columbia University. Anthony Lewis died in 2013 at the age of 85.
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