widow, n12
Darrow’s closing arguments, 19.1, 19.2
Darrow’s fee, 19.1, 19.2
Darrow’s hiring for the defense
Darrow’s off-hours activities, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, nts.1n15
defense’s witnesses
first trial, 19.1, 19.2
judge for
jury selection, 19.1, 19.2
mistrial ruling
NAACP’s involvement, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 19.4
not guilty verdict
prosecution’s case against Sweets
prosecution’s closing arguments, 19.1, 19.2
prosecution’s witnesses, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3
racial violence leading to, 19.1, nts.1n18
second trial, 19.1, 19.2
self-defense issue
Toms’s assessment of
Swift, Morrison
Symon, Cy
Taft, William Howard, 11.1, 11.2, nts.1n16
Tarbell, Ida
Taylor, Graham, 10.1, 21.1
Tennes, Mont, 10.1, 16.1, 16.2, 21.1
Tennessee Supreme Court
Thiele, S. Chris, 8.1, 10.1
Thomas, Morris St. P.
Thomas, William
Thompson, William “Big Bill”, 14.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 21.1, nts.1n17
Thompson, William O., 5.1, 10.1, 13.1
Tillman, “Pitchfork” Ben
Todd, Helen, 5.1, 5.2, 10.1, 13.1, 13.2
Tolstoy, Leo
Toms, Robert, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 19.4, 19.5, 19.6, 19.7, 19.8, 19.9, 19.10, 19.11, 19.12
Torrio, Johnny
Troy, Hank
Trude, A. S., 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
Tuckhorn, Simon
Turner, Alexander
Turner, Frederick
Turner, John
Turner, Mary
Tvietmoe, Olaf, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5, 21.1, nts.1n28
Tyler, Fred, 8.1, 10.1
Unger, August, n16
Union Traction Company
United Mine Workers (UMW), 6.1, 6.2
Utilities industry
Van Doren, Carl, n7
Van Keuren, Louise
Van Vlissingen, Peter
Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 20.1, 20.2
Varcoe, C. G., 11.1, 11.2
Varecha, James “Iggy”
Vermont Supreme Court
Villard, Oswald, 10.1, 20.1
Vincent, William
Vinci, James, 16.1, 16.2
Vogel, George
Voltaire
Walker, Edwin, 4.1, 4.2
Walling, William E.
Warren, Fred, n8
Washington, Booker T.
Watkins, Maureen, n1
Weeks, Bartow, 15.1, 15.2
Weil, Joseph “Yellow Kid”, 16.1, nts.1n7
Wells, H. G., 14.1, 18.1, 18.2, 20.1
Wells-Barnett, Ida
Western Federation of Miners (WFM), 8.1, 8.2, 14.1
Western Federation of Miners case
Adams’s retrials, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, nts.1nn15, 16, nts.2n2
Adams’s role as prosecution witness, issue of
arrest of WFM leaders
bribing of jurors, alleged, n23
corruption in Idaho government and, 8.1, nts.1n22
Darrow’s hiring by WFM
Darrow’s vilification of McParland
extradition challenge
financial consequences for Darrow, 10.1, 10.2
industrial warfare leading to
Left’s support for defendants
McParland’s “investigation” linking WFM to Steunenberg’s murder, 8.1, 8.2
mine owners’ bankrolling of prosecution
Orchard’s guilty plea to murder
perjury trap incident
Pettibone trial, 10.1, 10.2
press coverage of, 8.1, 10.1
pretrial hearings
prosecution’s failure in
prosecution spy on defense team
Republican establishment’s targeting of WFM
See also Haywood trial
White, Bud
White, C. E.
White, Walter, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 19.4, 19.5, 19.6, 19.7, 19.8, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 20.4, nts.1n12, nts.2n26, nts.3n12
White, Dr. William, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 21.1
White, William Allen, itr.1, 4.1, 5.1
White, William “Three-fingered Jack”, 16.1, 20.1, 21.1
Whitlock, Brand, itr.1, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 19.1, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3
Whitman, Walt
Whitsell, Leon, n4
Whittaker, Elizabeth
Wickersham, George
Wickes, Thomas
Willard, C. D.
Williams, Harry
Wilson, Edgar, 9.1, 9.2, nts.1n3
Wilson, Francis, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1, 10.1, 11.1, 14.1
Wilson, Woodrow, itr.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 15.1, nts.1n4
Winters, John
Winthrop, John
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Witty, W. W.
Wood, C. E. S. (Erskine), itr.1, itr.2, 5.1, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5, 13.6, 13.7, 13.8, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 19.1, 20.1, nts.1n19
Wood, Fremont, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 10.1, 10.2
Woods, William, 4.1, 4.2
Woodworkers strike of 1898
World War I, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 18.1
Wright, Austin W., 2.1, 7.1, 7.2, 14.1
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 15.1, nts.1n5
Wright, George, 21.1, 21.2
Wright, Richard, n1
Yarros, Victor, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 16.1, 17.1
Yerkes, Charles, 2.1, 2.2, 7.1, nts.1n13
Zeehandelaar, Felix, 11.1, 12.1
Zionism
PHOTOGRAPHY CREDITS
Chicago History Museum: ill.23; ill.25 and ill.26
Courtesy of Archives & Rare Books Library, University of Cincinnati: ill.19
Courtesy of the Arthur and Lila Weinberg family: ill.21
Courtesy of the Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University: ill.31, ill.32 and ill.33
Idaho State Historical Society: ill.13 and ill.15; ill.16 and ill.17
Image courtesy of the Division of Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Library System: ill.7
Image used by permission of the Estate of Clarence Darrow; All Rights Reserved: ill.2
Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division: ill.3; ill.5; ill.6; ill.8; ill.10, ill.11, and ill.12; ill.14; ill.18; ill.33; ill.34
National Archives and Records Administration: ill.24
Smithsonian Institution Archives: ill.30
University of Minnesota Law Library: ill.1; ill.4; ill.9; ill.12; ill.20 and ill.22
University of Tennessee Libraries, Knoxville, Special Collections: ill.27, ill.28 and ill.29
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
John Aloysius Farrell is the author of the highly acclaimed Tip O’Neill and the Democratic Century, which was featured on the cover of the New York Times Book Review, received rave reviews from the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic Monthly, and the Boston Globe, and was a New York Times “Notable Book” and a Washington Post Book World “Rave of the Year.” He is a senior writer at the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, D.C. Previously, he was Washington bureau chief for the Denver Post and served as Washington editor and White House correspondent for the Boston Globe. He lives with his wife and two children in Washington.
Illustrations
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In a certain light, Darrow could look Lincolnesque, no small plus in Illinois.
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Darrow with his son, Paul, and his father, Amirus. Said Darrow of his dad: “To his dying day, he lived in a walking trance.”
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