Book Description
Traces the life of the flamboyant lawyer who made a career of representing unpopular people and causes, including the Chicago Seven, and Leonard Peltier and the American Indian Movement.
Author : David J. Langum
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 11,70 MB
Release : 1999-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780814751503
Traces the life of the flamboyant lawyer who made a career of representing unpopular people and causes, including the Chicago Seven, and Leonard Peltier and the American Indian Movement.
Author : William M. Kunstler
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 28,77 MB
Release : 1996-01-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781888363166
Like most things William Kunstler does, the poems in this collection rattle the foundations of venerable American institutions, in this case our poetry canon and our entrenched notion that institutionalized racism is a thing of the past. His blending of high seriousness of purpose with lightheartedness of tone appears effortless and masterful. This is not ivory tower stuff. It is experience lived as fully as possible and only then recast in lyric form. Kunstler knew most of the people he writes about. A good number of those who live on in these pages had him as their only defender, some ke kept out of prison, others from the electric chair. In many ways, this book is Kunstler's true autobiography. Reading the sonnet and accompanying prose paragraph on Dr. Martin Luther Kings, Jr., for example, we learn all we need to know about the bond between Kunstler and the younger clergyman, and the seven years they worked together. And from the sonnet and commentary on Morton Stavis we grasp how deeply Kunstler feels the calling of his profession, by his anguish at the loss of his attorney friend who had for many years defended him in the courts.
Author : William Moses Kunstler
Publisher : Citadel Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 35,1 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806517551
The controversial lawyer looks back on his life and career, describing his most famous cases, from the Chicago Seven to the World Trade Center bombing
Author : William Moses Kunstler
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 30,42 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Law
ISBN :
Factual account, based in part on new evidence, of the still unsolved murder case of Rev. Edward Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills which occurred in New Jersey in 1922.
Author : William Moses Kunstler
Publisher : Carol Publishing Corporation
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 19,42 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
The defense attorney in such cases as the Chicago Seven, the World Trade Center bombing, the Central Park jogger case, and the flag-burning case, William Kunstler tells his story.
Author : William Kunstler
Publisher : Ocean Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 35,5 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9781876175498
Five famous cases of political repression and manipulation of public fear
Author : Ken Wachsberger
Publisher : Voices from the Underground
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 14,49 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN :
This is an important collection. I do not say that lightly.---Chris Atton, Professor of Media and Culture, Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland --
Author : Mason Currey
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 24,85 MB
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0307962377
More than 150 inspired—and inspiring—novelists, poets, playwrights, painters, philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians on how they subtly maneuver the many (self-inflicted) obstacles and (self-imposed) daily rituals to get done the work they love to do. Franz Kafka, frustrated with his living quarters and day job, wrote in a letter to Felice Bauer in 1912, “time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through by subtle maneuvers.” Kafka is one of 161 minds who describe their daily rituals to get their work done, whether by waking early or staying up late; whether by self-medicating with doughnuts or bathing, drinking vast quantities of coffee, or taking long daily walks. Thomas Wolfe wrote standing up in the kitchen, the top of the refrigerator as his desk, dreamily fondling his “male configurations”.... Jean-Paul Sartre chewed on Corydrane tablets (a mix of amphetamine and aspirin), ingesting ten times the recommended dose each day ... Descartes liked to linger in bed, his mind wandering in sleep through woods, gardens, and enchanted palaces where he experienced “every pleasure imaginable.” Here are: Anthony Trollope, who demanded of himself that each morning he write three thousand words (250 words every fifteen minutes for three hours) before going off to his job at the postal service, which he kept for thirty-three years during the writing of more than two dozen books ... Karl Marx ... Woody Allen ... Agatha Christie ... George Balanchine, who did most of his work while ironing ... Leo Tolstoy ... Charles Dickens ... Pablo Picasso ... George Gershwin, who, said his brother Ira, worked for twelve hours a day from late morning to midnight, composing at the piano in pajamas, bathrobe, and slippers.... Here also are the daily rituals of Charles Darwin, Andy Warhol, John Updike, Twyla Tharp, Benjamin Franklin, William Faulkner, Jane Austen, Anne Rice, and Igor Stravinsky (he was never able to compose unless he was sure no one could hear him and, when blocked, stood on his head to “clear the brain”).
Author : Sam Melville
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 23,39 MB
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1641606983
Now presented with a son's thirty years of research to provide new context. In June 1970, Sam Melville pleaded guilty to a series of politically motivated bombings in New York City and was sentenced to thirteen to eighteen years in jail. His imprisonment took him to Attica, where he helped lead the massive rebellion of September 9, 1971—and where, four days later, he was shot to death by state police. During nearly two years in prison, Melville wrote letters to his friends, his attorneys, his former wife, and his young son. To read them is to eavesdrop on a man's soul. Determinedly honest and deeply moving, they reveal much about Sam and evoke the suffering of prisoners in America. Collected after his death, the letters were originally published with material by Jane Alpert, who was living with Sam when both were arrested on bombing charges, and John Cohen, a close friend who visited Sam in jail. Sam's letters begin with despair but end in hope and defiance. He became a leader of the prisoners' struggle for justice and humane treatment. At Attica he fought against and was a victim of the state's brutality. Those who knew Sam found him a man of extraordinary courage and determination, who rather than accede or submit to injustice and racism chose to fight against them.
Author : Arthur Kinoy
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,8 MB
Release : 1984-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674770140