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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...

Anthony Lewis

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English
Vintage Books
23 April 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.

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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Imprint:   Vintage Books
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   Vintage Books ed
Dimensions:   Height: 203mm,  Width: 132mm,  Spine: 19mm
Weight:   232g
ISBN:   9780679723127
ISBN 10:   0679723129
Pages:   288
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Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  ELT Advanced ,  A / AS level
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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 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 the Harvard Law School where he was a Lecturer on Law from 1974 to 1989. He has also been the James Madison Visiting Professor at Columbia University. Anthony Lewis died in 2013 at the age of 85.

  • Winner of Edgar Allan Poe Awards (Fact Crime) 1965

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