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Gideon's Trumpet: How One Man, a Poor Prisoner, Took His Case to the Supreme
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Gideon's Trumpet: How One Man, a Poor Prisoner, Took His Case to the Supreme Court-and Changed the Law of the United States Trade paperback - 1989

by Anthony Lewis

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Vintage, April 1989. Trade Paperback. Used Good. Light wear to cover, slightly bumped corners, pages clean and unmarked. We carry new and used books in our storefront. We want you to be satisfied with your purchase. Please contact us if you have questions regarding this item.
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  • Title Gideon's Trumpet: How One Man, a Poor Prisoner, Took His Case to the Supreme Court-and Changed the Law of the United States
  • Author Anthony Lewis
  • Binding Trade Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition Used Good
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date April 1989
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 437287
  • ISBN 9780679723127 / 0679723129
  • Weight 0.68 lbs (0.31 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.05 x 5.19 x 0.73 in (20.45 x 13.18 x 1.85 cm)
  • Reading level 1200
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Library of Congress subjects United States, Right to counsel - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 88040504
  • Dewey Decimal Code 345.730

From the jacket flap

A history of the landmark case of James 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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About the author

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.