SOURCE: A review of 'The Story of My Life', in The Journal of Political Economy, Vol. XL, No. 4, August, 1932, pp. 557-58.

In the following review, Smith lauds the compassion and individuality evident in Darrow's The Story of My Life.

It might be expected that the life of Clarence Darrow would furnish materials of professional interest to economists. He got his public start in Chicago as an adherent of Henry George, in whose Progress and Poverty he early felt he had found "a new social gospel that bade fair to bring about the social equality and opportunity that has always been the dream of the idealist." While still young, he became general attorney for the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company. This position he resigned on the occasion of the American Railway Union Strike in 1894 to defend Debs, then head of the union involved. This proved the beginning of a...