A review by intoxicatedcake
Clarence Darrow for the Defense by Irving Stone

4.0

An amazing subject taken up by a talented writer. Suffers only in comparison to 'The Agony and the Ecstasy' about Michelangelo, another of his novels which just went beyond this one, not in attention to detail or scope of influence, but simply in its immersive quality. If I had one complaint about this novel it is the sometimes disjointed timeline, for which it is hard to fault the author when his subject didn't exactly give himself to only one cause at a time, but it did occasionally break the flow of reading that was expected after my earlier experience with Stone. Otherwise, it is a fantastic piece and an interesting look at a developing nation.