BOOK REVIEW:
GIVE ME LIBERTY!
Champion Of The People
by bobby jennings
The only movie my father ever took me to see was "Inherit The Wind" a great drama depicting the infamous Tennessee Scopes "monkey trial'" pitting William Jennings Bryan against Clarence Darrow. I remember the glee of my father, a law student, as he rooted for Darrow even though Bryan was our relative. Darrow was my father's "champion of the people". My father's father had been an attorney who had fought for the little guy against the big money interests all of his career and my father longed for us to follow my grandfather's and Darrow's example.
My father went on to be a college administrator, and I a construction manager. And over the years I developed a disdain for and a prejudice against attorneys, for most could take the very simple and make it complex. Most would not take a stand on issues and seemed to always play it safe. In truth most were just flat boring and lacked integrity. I never met the shadow of a Clarence Darrow in the bunch.
I read "Give Me Liberty" in one sitting and came away wanting to read more and then read "How to Argue And Win Every Time" a title I had been turned off with when first published. His books read more like novels with their many quips and quotes and stories, but there also emerged from his pages a personality I came to much admire.
Before reading his books, I had only known of Gerry Spence as an interesting TV personality. But I found much more. Not only does he have a superb winning record, but the cases he has undertaken are the toughest. He has taken on Big Money and won. He has taken on the FBI and Attorney General and won.-? This experience has given him a unique viewpoint of the challenges that face now in protecting of basic liberties and we must listen to him.
Some may describe Gerry Spence as a pain and some as the greatest living American lawyer, and that he may be. I would prefer however, only to say that he casts his own GIANT human shadow and stands at the forefront of the movement for the meek inheriting the world.
While reading his books I recaptured that feeling of my father and I watching Spencer Tracey portraying Clarence Darrow "for the defense". It would have been a great loss indeed if I had missed the writings of Gerry Spence. He has much to teach us about being human and I will read all of his books. Finally, I now have my own "Champion of the People".
Recommended book:
"Give Me Liberty!"
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About The Author of Give Me Liberty!
Gerry Spence is a consummate country lawyer who has a national law practice, and has tried and won some of America's most famous cases?the Karen Silkwood case, the defense of Imelda Marcos, the defense of the Idaho separatist, Randy Weaver, the celebrated murder defense of Sandra Jones and many others. He has not lost a criminal case in his entire career of over forty years, and, having achieved a remarkable record of multimillion dollars verdicts, he has also not been turned away by a jury in a civil case in the past twenty-five years. A charismatic speaker, he frequently appears on television and radio. Author of:-? How to Argue and Win Every Time;-? From Freedom to Slavery;-? O.J.: The Last Word;-? The Making of a Country Lawyer;-? Gunning for Justice;-? Of Murder and Madness;-? Trial by Fire;-? With Justice for None; and-? Give Me Liberty!
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