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Gideon's Trumpet

How One Man, a Poor Prisoner, Took His Case to the Supreme Court-and Changed theLaw of the United States

By Anthony Lewis

By Anthony Lewis

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Apr 23, 1989 | ISBN 9780679723127

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Gideon's Trumpet by Anthony Lewis
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Apr 23, 1989 | ISBN 9780679723127

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About Gideon’s Trumpet

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.

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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

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Product Details

Category: 20th Century U.S. History | Domestic Politics

Paperback | $18.00
Published by Vintage
Apr 23, 1989 | 288 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679723127

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