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Elmer Gertz has defended famous peopleincluding Henry Miller, Nathan Leopold, and Jack Rubyand he has become famous in his own right through his struggle for civil liberties and personal rights.Gertz has taken on a lengthy list of cases and causes over the six decades of his legal career. He fought successfully against the censorship of Henry Millers book Tropic of Cancer, which had been banned in Chicago for obscenity. He got Nathan Leopold released from prison after Leopold had served 34 years for his part in the death of 14-year-old Bobby Franks. An ardent foe of the death penalty, Gertz labored for years as part of a national team of lawyers that was finally able to overturn Jack Rubys death sentence for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald. Gertzs cases have helped make libel law in the nation.For this edition, Gertz adds an afterword that covers the 15 years since the books first publication. Gertz talks of Henry Millers last days and his travels to the USSR on behalf of the Refuseniks.
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Charter for a New Age: An Inside View of the Sixth Illinois Constitutional Convention (with Joe Pisciotte)
For the First Hours of Tomorrow: The New Illinois Bill of Rights
A Handful of Clients
Frank Harris: A Study in Black and White (with A.I. Tobin)
The Short Stories of Frank Harris: A Selection
Henry Miller: Years of Trial and Triumph, 19621964. The Correspondence of Henry Miller and Elmer Gertz (edited by Elmer Gertz and Felice Flanery Lewis)
Moment of Madness: The People vs. Jack Ruby
The Odyssey of a Barbarian: The Biography of George Sylvester Viereck
Quest for a Constitution: A Man Who Wouldn't Quit. A Political Biography of Samuel Witwer of Illinois (with Edward S. Gilbreath)
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To Life
The Story of a Chicago Lawyer with a New Afterword
Elmer Gertz
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY PRESS CARBONDALE AND EDWARDSVILLE
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Copyright 1990 by Elmer Gertz First published 1974 by McGraw-Hill Book Company All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Designed by Marcy J. Katz Production supervised by Natalia Nadraga 93 92 91 90 4 3 2 1
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gertz, Elmer, 1906 To life: the story of a Chicago lawyer / Elmer Gertz: with a new afterword. p. cm. Reprint. Originally published: New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974. ISBN 0-8093-1608-0 1. Gertz, Elmer, 1906 . 2. LawyersIllinoisBiography. 3. Civil rightsUnited StatesHistory. I. Title. KF373.G47A37 1990 340'.092dc20 89-19726 [B] CIP
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.
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For the two glorious women in my life, Ceretta and Mamie, and our children and grandchildren
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Contents
Specimen HoursA Prefatory Note
ix
One Pictures Out of My Past
1
Two A Very Serious Young Man
19
Three The Law
33
Four Beginnings
45
Five My First Books
55
Six Growing into the Middle Years
73
Seven Carl Sandburg
83
Eight Race, Religion, and the Law
93
Nine "Mr. Housing"
109
Ten President Truman
119
Eleven Out of the DepthA Personal Tragedy and Its Happy Aftermath
131
Twelve A Literary Boom
139
Thirteen Litigating for and against the Police
161
Fourteen Writing a New Constitution for Illinois
167
Fifteen Nathan LeopoldAfter stateville
187
Sixteen Fighting the Death Penalty
199
Seventeen The Many Lives of Libel
217
Eighteen A Sabbatical Leave-taking
247
TimeWhere Does It Go?
253
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Specimen HoursA Prefatory Note
No book about any man can be complete. In a sense, a man writes only of specimen hours, typical moments, when he does his memoirs. The real man is viewed, if at all, by indirection, through the interstices, so to speak, of the narrative.
Perhaps no one, not in my position, will care about the omissions, but they trouble me greatly. I am tempted to list those friends, cases, writings, organizations, incidents that I have left out. Some of them were once in this book. Their spirits still hover over these pages.
I think of George Herman, Eli Fink and Leo Rosten, whom I have known for more than fifty yearseach a distinct personality with different life experiences. They traveled with me from the grades to gray hairs. We have savored and endured much together, but scarcely a hint of this survives in my book.
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