On October 10, I will give a talk about Darrow’s “highly political legal career” at the Grand Rapids (Michigan) Public Library. The event starts at 7 pm and is open to the public.
For more information about the event as well as the Great Michigan Read program (which is focusing on Kevin Boyle’s wonderful book Arc of Justice) see:
http://michiganhumanities.org/programs/tgmr/?page_id=11
Andrew E. Kersten is Frankenthal professor of history in the Department of Democracy and Justice Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. He received his PhD in American history at the University of Cincinnati in 1997. Clarence Darrow, American Iconoclast is his latest book. He has published others—Race, Jobs, and the War: The FEPC in the Midwest; Politics and Progress: The American State and Society since the Civil War; A. Philip Randolph: A Life in the Vanguard; and Labor’s Home Front: The American Federation of Labor during the Second World War—as well as several articles. He is also interested in and has written about Wisconsin history and the history of the city of Green Bay.
