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Chargement... Howe and Hummel: Their True and Scandalous History (1947)par Richard H. Rovere
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I recently re-read this book for something like the fifth time. Well-written, very funny in spots, but also archly observed. The New Yorker Profile par excellence, and warmly recommended for anyone who likes New York City history, legal history, or is simply looking for a good story. ( ) Criminal barrister Alex McBride has chosen to discuss Howe & Hummel: Their True and Scandalous History by Richard H. Rovere, on FiveBooks as one of the top five on his subject - Trial By Jury, saying that: “…This is a fun book and everyone should get it. It’s about two of the most shyster lawyers you can imagine in New York in the second half of the 19th century. In those days you didn’t need a degree or anything to be a lawyer. Howe was an English guy on the run for murder and he pitched up in New York and started a law firm on Center Street in downtown Manhattan. He fell in with the much smarter but equally impecunious Hummel, a ratbag from the Lower East Side. Hummel was a brilliant lawyer but Howe was a brilliant trial advocate and Howe did over 600 capital cases and hardly ever lost. He never lost because of underhand practices like bribing judges and jurors. He also designed his own clothes and he would change his outfits as the trial grew closer to the verdict…” The full interview is available here: http://fivebooks.com/interviews/alex-mcbride aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"In its day, the firm of Howe & Hummel was the most successful - and notorious - criminal law office in the city of New York. Between 1869, when it was organized, and 1907, when the district attorney put it out of business, the firm defended more than a thousand people indicted for murder or manslaughter and seemed to have a monopoly on the rest of the criminal business in New York, as well. Howe and Hummel were also preeminent among divorce lawyers and theatrical lawyers, representing such figures as P. T. Barnum, Edwin Booth, John Barrymore, and Lillie Langtry." "When John L. Sullivan and Alf Greenfield were indicted for "fighting without weapons" in Madison Square Garden, Howe and Hummel won their acquittal. Mother Mandelbaum, the queen of New York's underworld and chief American fence, paid them a hefty yearly retainer to defend her and her stable of thieves. Charles O. Brockway, a counterfeiter so adept that he once caused the United States Treasury to withdraw a batch of $100 bills, engaged them in his defense. Whenever Lillian Russell wanted a new husband, Howe and Hummel were the lawyers who freed her from the old one. They could find, as Richard Rovere writes, "loopholes large enough for convicted murderers to walk through standing up."" "Howe & Hummel tells the story of this raffish pair, their famous and infamous clients, and their bold methods of operation. It was a bestseller when it first appeared in 1947, and this new edition - introduced by Calvin Trillin - is sure to delight a new generation of readers."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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