$5 DEAL Adult Paperback Book Law Legal History Supreme Court Human Interest

Adult Trade Paperback Book Law Legal History Supreme Court Constitution Human Interest Gideon’s Trumpet By Anthony Lewis Book is in great to excellent vintage condition—see photos. Spine is intact. From the cover: “‘The question is very simple. I requested the court to appoint me attorney and the court refused.' So Gideon had written to the Supreme Court in support of his claim that the Constitution entitled the poor man charged with crime to have a lawyer at his side. Most Americans would probably have agreed with him. To even the best-informed person unfamiliar with the law it seemed inconceivable, in the year 1962, that the Constitution would allow a man to be tried without a lawyer because he could not afford one. "But the question was really as far from simple as it could imaginably be...." — from Gideon's Trumpet “If an obscure Florida convict named Clarence Earl Gideon had not sat down in his prison cell... to write a letter to the Supreme Court... the vast machinery of American law would have gone on functioning undisturbed. But Gideon did write that letter, the Court did look into his case... and the whole course of American legal history has been changed." - Robert F. Kennedy "A warm, intimate and moving account of a lowly man's case that became a Constitutional landmark." - Paul A. Freund, Harvard Law School